Konferenzbeitrag
Cross-country unemployment insurance, transfers, and trade-offs in international risk sharing
We assess to which degree an international transfer mechanism can enhance consumption risk sharing as well as allocative efficiency and apply our results to a potential European unemployment benefit scheme (EUBS). Specifically, we first develop a simple model with nominal rigidities to build intuition by deriving analytical results. We then use a rich DSGE model, calibrated to the Core and the Periphery of the euro area, to quantitatively analyze the changing dynamics that a EUBS brings about. We find that a EUBS can provide risk sharing by stabilizing relative consumption as well as unemployment. Following supply shocks, however, the cross-country transfer embodied in the unemployment benefits is spent to a large degree on relatively inefficiently produced goods in the receiving countries. This renders the allocation even more inefficient by opening country-specific labor wedges further, also after government-spending shocks. Yet, since this trade-off between allocative efficiency and consumption risk sharing does not exist after certain demand shocks, the welfare effects of a EUBS depend on the cause for international unemployment differentials. A EUBS that is only active after specific shocks would therefore maximize overall welfare. Even without this feature, a EUBS would raise welfare in the Core, leaving the Periphery's welfare almost unchanged.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2021: Climate Economics
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Macroeconomic Issues of Monetary Unions
International Business Cycles
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- Thema
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Cross-country transfers
international unemployment insurance
EMUEuropean business cycles
Optimum Currency Area
Structural reforms
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Enders, Zeno
Vespermann, David
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
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Kiel, Hamburg
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Enders, Zeno
- Vespermann, David
- ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Entstanden
- 2021
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