This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job … dynamics--but not employment dynamics--during the pandemic. Second, benefit expansions allow us to study the MPC of normally …

This paper reexamines the Phillips and Beveridge curves to explain the inflation surge in the U.S. during the 2020s. We … five other inflation surges over the past 111 years where the Beveridge threshold was breached. We define a Beveridge … more sensitive to labor market conditions when it crosses the Beveridge threshold -- a point at which the labor market …

Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …

We model a reinsurance mechanism for the national unemployment insurance programs of euro area member states. The risk …-sharing scheme we analyze is designed to smooth country-level unemployment risk and expenditures around each country's median level … of the euro area member states' unemployment expenditures risk in the aftermath of the 2009 sovereign debt crisis if …

short-run employment probabilities and leads to higher long-run cumulative earnings. We find shorter non-employment …

through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a large and immediate drop in employment among US workers, along with major expansions … of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to … study employment among older adults and their participation in disability and retirement insurance programs through the …

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …