confirm the cross-country variation in the responsiveness of unemployment in the wake of the Great Recession. In the United … commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment …-term estimate of Okun’s coefficient implying that the deviation in unemployment during the crisis resulted from a larger output gap …

eligible unemployed would exit unemployment, concentrated among the long-term unemployed. The estimates imply that UI benefit …"Nearly two years after the official end of the "Great Recession," the labor market remains historically weak. One … candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to …

and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …