monthly Current Population Survey, I estimate unemployment-to-employment (UE) hazard function and unemployment-to-inactivity …This paper attempts to quantify the effects of extended unemployment insurance benefits in recent years. Using the … suggest that extended benefits in recent years have raised male workers’ unemployment rate by 1.2 percentage points with a 90 …

This paper measures the effect of extensions of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the unemployment rate using a … benefits contributed to an increase in the unemployment rate by 1.2 percentage points, which is about a quarter of an observed … 2010 moderately slows down the recovery of the unemployment rate. Specifically, the model indicates that the last extension …