We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …

a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results …'s unemployment spell, with the majority of this decline occurring during the first eight months. We explore how this effect varies … that employer screening plays an important role in generating duration dependence; employers use the unemployment spell …

longer unemployment spell - by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results indicate that … the likelihood of receiving a callback for an interview significantly decreases with the length of a worker's unemployment … result is consistent with the prediction of a broad class of screening models in which employers use the unemployment spell …

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal income tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …

Income Tax (NIT) at the bottom of the income distribution, in the presence of unemployment and wage responses to taxation … that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages. This formula nests a broad variety of structures of the labor market … unemployment and wage responses are not taken into account …

We study how the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with … moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is relatively low. By contrast, our evidence suggests … standard deviation increase in the unemployment rate leads to a roughly 14 to 27 percentage point increase in the welfare …