Consider a one-sided search model of unemployment we developed in class. In class discussion we never mentioned how unemployment insurance benefit, b, is financed. For this question, you are going to incorporate it to the model. Let's assume that in order to finance the unemployment insurance benefit, b, the government imposes lump-sum tax, T, on each employed worker. Assuming that the economy is in a long-run steady-state equilibrium, the total amount that needs to be paid out to unemployed workers is bU, where as usual, U repre-

Consider a one-sided search model of unemployment we developed in class. In class discussion we never mentioned how unemployment insurance benefit, b, is financed. For this question, you are going to incorporate it to the model. Let's assume that in order to finance the unemployment insurance benefit, b, the government imposes lump-sum tax, T, on each employed worker. Assuming that the economy is in a long-run steady-state equilibrium, the total amount that needs to be paid out to unemployed workers is bU, where as usual, U repre-

Exploring Economics

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Author:Robert L. Sexton

Publisher:Robert L. Sexton

Chapter18: Introduction To Macroeconomics: Unemployment, Inflation, And Economic Fluctuations

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