Unemployment insurance, risk, and the acquisition of specific skills: an experimental approach

Educational and skill divisions among workers are an increasingly important political cleavage in advanced democracies. We provide the first experimental analysis of the effects of unemployment risk and unemployment insurance generosity on workers’ investment in job-specific skills. Using both labor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ahlquist, JS, Ansell, B
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Now Publishers 2023