productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial) insurance against employment risk …

rents from holding a full-time $15 per hour job relative to unemployment are worth about $20,000, more than seven times …

of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to … expiration of expanded unemployment insurance, we find that the loss of these additional financial supports is associated with a … drop in older adult unemployment rates and an increase in Social Security Disability Insurance claiming. Social Security …

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …

How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering … indicate that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as 14% due to the broadband internet expansion …

workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …