We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

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 …

This paper studies the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) in low-income countries characterized by high …

While there has been considerable discussion of the adequacy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits as a form of … income replacement, there is little evidence on the other resources that the unemployed have to finance their unemployment … financial assets sufficient to finance roughly two-thirds of the income loss from an unemployment spell, but that there is …

consumption across states and times. Compared to the first best, there will be too little search. Optimal unemployment programs … welfare and may even increase GDP. Our analytical results suggest that welfare is higher if the unemployment benefits program … includes income-contingent unemployment loans (ICL), where the amount repaid depends on the individual's future income. Such …

I study unemployment insurance (UI) in general equilibrium with incomplete markets, search frictions, and nominal …-2014, UI benefit extensions had a contemporaneous output multiplier around 1 or higher. The unemployment rate would have been …