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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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UI Savings Accounts<br />

Alternative to UI transfer-based system (Feldstein and Altman 2007)<br />

Instead of paying UI tax to government, pay into a UI savings account.<br />

If unemployed, deplete this savings account according to current<br />

benefit schedule<br />

If savings exhausted, government pays benefit as in current system<br />

(financed using a tax).<br />

Idea: people internalize loss of money from staying unemp longer.<br />

Reduces distortion from UI while providing benefits as in current<br />

system.<br />

But modelling this formally is diffi cult: to internalize incentives at<br />

retirement, people must be forward looking, but then no need to force<br />

them to save.<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 120 / 207

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