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Title: Unemployment Compensation Finance and Aggregate Employment Fluctuations

Author(s): Olivier L'Haridon and Franck Malherbet

Publication Date: October 2002

Keyword(s): employment fluctuation, experience rating, job protection and matching models

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics

Abstract: Experience rating which is often treated as a simple adjustment cost is an original feature of the US unemployment benefit system. This Paper extensively addresses the effect of experience rating as an alternative to standard job protection. We provide a simple matching model of unemployment that handles both idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks. In such a framework, we show that experience rating tends to increase labour market performances. Indeed, moving toward an experience rated system tends to stabilize employment. Additionally, for reasonable parameter values average employment and production are increased over the cycle. Therefore, it may be worthwhile to shift standard job protection measures toward a more experience rated system.

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L'Haridon, O and Malherbet, F. 2002. 'Unemployment Compensation Finance and Aggregate Employment Fluctuations'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=3614