of theory. Amongst the counterfactual implications are very low volatility of tightness, procyclical unemployment, and a …

consistent with increasing inequality in every country, growth in residual wage inequality, rising unemployment, and reallocation … within and between industries. While the opening of trade yields welfare gains, unemployment and inequality within sectors … nonmonotonic effects on unemployment and inequality within sectors. As aggregate unemployment and inequality have within- and …

unemployment. In the optimal welfare program, assisted search is implemented between an initial spell of private search … (unemployment insurance) and a final spell of pure income support where search effort is not elicited. To be effective, job …

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

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 …

One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to increase UI coverage in the face … of longer unemployment spells. Although it is a common concern that such extensions may themselves raise nonemployment …

The majority of papers analyzing the employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit durations focuses on the … duration of the first unemployment spell. In this paper, we make two contributions. First, we use a regression discontinuity … they incorporate differences in UI benefit receipt and employment due to recurrent unemployment spells. Second, we derive a …

candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …, and between individuals with differing unemployment durations. I then use these hazards to explore a variety of …