conditions. A one percentage point increase in unemployment is associated with an increase in the after-tax income poverty rate … responsive to unemployment when using regional variation. Low percentiles of both income and consumption are sensitive to …

This paper examines unemployment duration and the incidence of claims following a 36 percent increase in the maximum …

We examine the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) experience rating on layoffs using high quality firm and …

of higher unemployment insurance benefits, individuals who filed just before and just after sixteen benefit increases are … period of unemployment insurance receipt by about one week. This effect is precisely estimated and found using several … approaches. the incidence of layoffs resulting in unemployment insurance claims is unaffected by the increases. The evidence does …

This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits … on the duration of unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the United States. The first … part of the empirical work uses a large sample of household heads to examine differences in the unemployment spell …