Rothstein, Jesse; Valletta, Robert G. - 2014
Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007 …-09 and its aftermath, large numbers of recipients exhausted their maximum available UI benefits prior to finding new jobs … jobless spells outlast their UI benefits, comparing the periods following the 2001 and 2007-09 recessions. Job loss reduces …