We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

the short term, but can cause a higher equilibrium unemployment rate in the long term. Employment subsidies succeed in …We analyze the effects of various labor market policies on job creation, job destruction, and employment. The framework … of 2009, including the unemployment, inflow, and outflow rates by workers of different educational attainment. We …

which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of … unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the Dis- placed Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2010 to investigate the … period with very low rates of reemployment, diculty nding full-time employment, and substantial earnings losses. …

which the labor market is now only slowly recovering. The unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and durations of … unemployment are unprecedentedly long. I use data from the Dis- placed Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2010 to investigate the … period with very low rates of reemployment, diculty nding full-time employment, and substantial earnings losses. …