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 …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …

We use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute … the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement … implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and July 2020, 76% of workers eligible for regular Unemployment …

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …