Search in the Labor Market Under Imperfectly Insurable Income Risk.

This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model calibrated to the U.S. shows that market incompletene...

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Main Author: Roca, Mauro
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers.
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