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- Lindbeck, Assar, et al.
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A Continuous Model of Income Insurance
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We develop a simple yet realistic model of income insurance, where the individual’s ability and willingness to work is treated as a continuous variable. In this framework, income insurance not only provides income smoothing, it also relieves the individual from particularly burdensome work. As a result, the individual adjusts his labor supply in a continuous fashion to the implicit tax wedge of the insurance system. Moral hazard, in the sense that an individual receives insurance benefits without actually being fully qualified, also becomes a matter of degree. Moreover, our continuous framework makes it easy to analyze both the role of administrative rejection of claims, and the role of social norms, for the utilization of insurance.
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- Lindbeck, Assar, et al.
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A Model of Income Insurance and Social Norms
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A large literature on ex ante moral hazard in income insurance emphasizes that the individual can affect the probability of an income loss by choice of lifestyle and hence, the degree of risk-taking. The much smaller literature on moral hazard ex post mainly analyzes how a “moral hazard constraint” can make the individual abstain from fraud (“mimicking”). The present paper instead presents a model of moral hazard ex post without a moral hazard constraint; the individual's ability and willingness to work is represented by a continuous stochastic variable in the utility function, and the extent of moral hazard depends on the generosity of the insurance system. Our model is also well suited for analyzing social norms concerning work and benefit dependency.
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- Lindbeck, Assar
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China's Reformed Economy
- 2007
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Ingår i: CESifo Forum. ; 1
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Lindbeck, Assar, et al.
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Job Security and Work Absence : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
- 2006
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0.2-0.3 days per year. This aggregate net figure hides important effects on different groups of employees. Workers remaining in the reform firms after the reform reduced their absence by about one day. People with a high absence record tended to leave reform firms, but these firms also became less reluctant to hire people with a record of high absence.
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- Lindbeck, Assar
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Prospects for the Welfare State
- 2008
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It is useful to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous factors behind contemporary and expected future problems for the welfare state. This paper tries to identify major problems of both types and to indicate alternative reform possibilities to deal with them. At the same time as several governments struggle with such reforms, new demands on the welfare state emerge. Although the basic structure of today’s welfare-state arrangements certainly can be kept, the reforms required are sufficiently large to create considerable conflicts across interest groups.
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