Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms: Worldwide Evidence

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Andrew Ellul

Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF)

Marco Pagano

CSEF - University of Naples Federico II - Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF); Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF); Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Fabiano Schivardi

Luiss Guido Carli - Department of Economics and Finance; Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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Date Written: September 1, 2017

Abstract

If unemployment insurance is more generous, workers should demand less implicit insurance from their employers: firm- and government-provided insurance should be substitutes. Using a firm-level international panel dataset, we investigate this hypothesis exploiting cross-country and time-series variation in public unemployment insurance as a shifter of workers’ demand for insurance within firms, and family vs. non-family ownership as a shifter of firms’ supply of insurance. We find that employment stability in family firms is greater, and the wage discount larger, in countries with more generous public unemployment insurance, while no such substitutability is present for non-family firms.

Keywords: risk-sharing, insurance, social security, unemployment, wages, family firms

JEL Classification: G31, G32, G38, H25, H26, M40

Suggested Citation

Ellul, Andrew and Pagano, Marco and Schivardi, Fabiano, Employment and Wage Insurance within Firms: Worldwide Evidence (September 1, 2017). Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 2014-23, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 517/2017, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2469461 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2469461

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