During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) increased US unemployment benefits … benefits, which supports our identification assumption. First, we find that a 10% increase in unemployment benefits caused a 3 …

The expiration of the temporary $600 boost to weekly UI benefits under the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation …

In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

We study how the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with … moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is relatively low. By contrast, our evidence suggests … standard deviation increase in the unemployment rate leads to a roughly 14 to 27 percentage point increase in the welfare …

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 …