the steepness of the time profile of unemployment benefits by raising the initial benefit, lowering its long-term level …

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 …

This paper analyses the impact of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) extensions on jobseeker households in selected …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

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

they are likely to exist also in other countries. -- Unemployment ; Optimal Unemployment Insurance ; Liquidity Constraints …

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 …