Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …, nearly a million jobs in the Great Recession …

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 … optimality of large reforms. Although existing consumption drop-based approaches typically imply an optimal replacement rate near …