We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany …

-term unemployment assistance (UA). The reform raised the minimum age to receive unlimited-duration UA from 52 to 55. Using a difference …

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 … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We model a reinsurance mechanism for the national unemployment insurance programs of euro area member states. The risk …-sharing scheme we analyze is designed to smooth country-level unemployment risk and expenditures around each country's median level … of the euro area member states' unemployment expenditures risk in the aftermath of the 2009 sovereign debt crisis if …

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 study a fundamental reform of the public Disability Insurance (DI) system in Germany. Effective 2001, cohorts born …