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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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UI and Firm Behavior<br />

Preceding discussion assumed perfect experience rating of UI<br />

Firms’layoff incentives are not distorted<br />

But in practice, UI is not perfectly experience rated<br />

Feldstein (1976, 1978) shows:<br />

Theoretically that imperfect experience rating effect can raise rate of<br />

temporary layoffs<br />

Empirically that this effect is large in practice<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 115 / 207

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