@article{Sanner2003, author = {Sanner, Helge}, title = {Optimal unemployment insurance in a federation}, isbn = {3-540-44004-6}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Sanner2003, author = {Sanner, Helge}, title = {Self-financing unemployment insurance and bargaining structure}, year = {2003}, abstract = {This study examines how the size of trade unions relative to the labor force impacts on the desirability of different organizational forms of self- financing unemployment insurance (UI) for workers, firms, and with reference to an efficiency criterion. For this purpose, we respectively numerically compare the outcome of a model with a uniform payroll tax to a model where workers pay taxes according to their systematic risk of unemployment. Our results highlight the importance of the bargaining structure for the assessment of a particular UI scheme. Most importantly, it depends on the size of the unions whether effciency favors a uniform or a differentiated UI scheme.}, language = {en} }