Cordial Saludo,

Este viernes 20 de julio de 2018 se llevará a cabo la Sexagésima Tercera Sesión del Seminario Interno FEN donde se exponen trabajos en progreso de académicos y avances de tesis de estudiantes.

En esta ocasión presentará:

Título: "Individual Savings Accounts and Moral Hazard: The Case of the Chilean Unemployment Insurance System"

Autores: Pablo Guzmán
Presenta: Pablo Guzmán

Abstract: After the Great Recession, unemployment insurance (UI) systems gained newfound relevance in the literature and in the public policy debate. Although these programs provide often much-needed financial protection against labor market shocks, both theoretical and empirical evidence has highlighted how these transfer programs alter workers’ incentives towards job search effort, or how take-up of these benefits could hurt future labor market outcomes (reemployment wages). Therefore, understanding the behavioral effects of UI systems has become a first-order question which assessment will undoubtedly contribute to optimal policy design. This research project will study Chile’s UI system and how its particular design relates to the moral hazard problem by obtaining well-identified reduced form estimates of the effect of increases in UI benefits on relevant outcomes, for instance, expected nonemployment durations.

El seminario se llevará a cabo a las 13:00 horas en la sala T1605 de la FEN, se solicita confirmar asistencia con Pamela Fuentes (pamfuent@fen.uchile.cl), a más tardar el día jueves 19 de julio a las 13 horas, ya que el seminario contempla almuerzo.

Quienes deseen inscribir presentaciones para futuras sesiones, por favor dirigirse a Emilia Brito y a Vivian Norambuena a los correos: brito@fen.uchile.cl   y vnorambuen@fen.uchile.cl.  

Saludos cordiales,

Dirección de Investigación FEN