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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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UI and Firm Behavior: Feldstein 1976 model<br />

Firms offer workers stochastic contracts, with wage and probability of<br />

temporary layoff<br />

Two states: high demand and low demand<br />

In equilibrium, competitive firms will offer contract that pays worker<br />

his marginal product in expectation over two states at cheapest cost<br />

to firm<br />

Firm profits by laying off workers with imperfect exp rating<br />

Layoffs generate first-order gain in profits at a second-order cost from<br />

added risk to worker<br />

In an imperfectly experience-rated economy, firms choose a positive<br />

rate of layoffs in low output state<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 117 / 207

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