Marginal prices fell, and disposable incomes increased, for drug and alcohol consumers during the pandemic. Most of the amount, timing, and composition of the 240,000 deaths involving alcohol and drugs since early 2020 can be explained by income effects and category-specific price changes. For...

This paper presents new evidence on how UI (Unemployment Insurance) benefit pay frequencies affect the job search behaviors of UI claimants in the United States. By exploiting quasi-experimental variations in states' benefit pay schedules, I find that switching from biweekly to weekly pay...

I extend a labor-market search and matching model of equilibrium with unemployment insurance (UI) program to incorporate the choice to participate in the labor market. UI reform that lowers the UI payment increases search intensity but discourages labor-market participation. Reducing UI payments...

Using administrative data for Upper Austrian workers from 2003--2013, we show that an extension in unemployment insurance (UI) duration increases unemployment length and impacts worker physical and mental health. These effects vary by gender. Specifically, we find that women eligible for an...

In the United States, almost half of the workers who separated from their jobs ended their unemployment spell by returning to work for their last employer. In this study, we explore the impact of the experience rating (ER) system on recalls. In states using reserve ratio ER, and for a firm that...

This paper investigates the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) generosity on the geographical mobility of unemployed workers. Identification is based on an unanticipated 10 p.p. cut in the UI replacement rate that affected workers starting an unemployment spell after July 14, 2012. Using...

The aim of this paper is to study the optimal time for the individual to join an unemployment insurance scheme which is intended to protect workers against the consequences of job loss and to encourage the unemployed workers to find a new job as early as possible. The wage dynamic is described...

We study the welfare effects of both existing and counter-factual Europeanunemployment insurance (UI) policies using a rich multi-country dynamic generalequilibrium model with labour market frictions. The model successfully replicatesseveral salient features of European labor markets, in...

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government implemented the largest expansion in eligibility to federal Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits in history through the creation of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. This program expanded eligibility to self-employed...

While unemployment insurance (UI) could help attenuate racial income disparities in the U.S., Black unemployed workers seem to receive less UI benefits than White ones. To understand why, we analyze administrative data from random audits on UI claims in all U.S. states. We first document a large...