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 …

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 …

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 extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) insures workers against unforeseen events or subsidizes …

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

unemployment spells are less likely to file. We show that if the decision to file for UI is affected by benefit levels and the … expected duration of unemployment, it will bias estimates of the effects of UI on unemployment duration …

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 …

of unemployment spell durations and the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment outcomes in the United … States. These issues are examined using a unique sample of UI recipients from Missouri and Pennsylvania covering unemployment … unemployment spells. Furthermore, ex-ante temporary layoff spells (the spells of individuals' who initially expect to be recalled …