the effects of unemployment insurance on measured and actual employment, unemployment and non-participation. The data are … effect of UI on unemployment duration and temporary layoffs. The results are rather inconclusive, but suggest the importance …

discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria. Analyzing data for over …

This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … consistent evidence of an effect. This suggests that in some ways SS may serve as a more effective form of unemployment insurance …

Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies with calibrated … parameters which only differ by the degree of unemployment insurance and assume that they are hit by a common technological shock …

rigidities and trade impediments in shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, price levels and unemployment rates. We show that … patterns of unemployment. Specifically, trade integration -- which benefits both countries -- may raise their rates of … unemployment. Moreover, differences in rates of unemployment do not necessarily reflect differences in labor market rigidities; the …

The recent experience of Washington State provides a natural setting to examine the effects of the unemployment … insurance payroll tax on wages, employment, claims and denials. During the 13 year period from 1972 through 1984, all employers … in Washington paid the same unemployment insurance (UI) tax rate. As a by-product of Federal legislation, Washington was …

large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …

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 …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job … dynamics--but not employment dynamics--during the pandemic. Second, benefit expansions allow us to study the MPC of normally …