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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 …
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We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …
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We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …
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This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …
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This paper studies the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) in low-income countries characterized by high …
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large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …
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unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …
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By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering … this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data … and find that they increased the unemployment rate by at most 0.3 percentage point …
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This paper studies the implications of individuals' knowledge of future job loss for the existence of an unemployment …
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unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …
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