Bargaining structure and regional unemployment insurance

  • This study examines how the size of trade unions relative to the la- bor force impacts on the desirability of different organizational forms of self-financing unemployment insurance (UI) for workers, firms, and with reference to an efficiency criterion. For this purpose, we respectively nu- merically compare the outcome of a model with a uniform payroll tax to a model where workers pay taxes according to their systematic risk of unemployment. Our results highlight the importance of the bargaining structure for the assessment of a particular UI scheme. Most importantly, it depends on the size of the unions whether efficiency favors a uniform or a differentiated UI scheme.

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Author details:Helge SannerGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13747
Publication series (Volume number):Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge (44)
Publication type:Working Paper
Language:English
Publication year:2001
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Release date:2007/06/04
RVK - Regensburg classification:QD 100
Organizational units:Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
DDC classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
External remark:Sanner, Helge: Bargaining structure and regional unemployment insurance / Helge Sanner. - Potsdam : Univ., 2001. - 15 Bl. : graph. Darst.
(Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge : Diskussionsbeitrag ; 44)
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