We measure the effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment. We exploit the variation induced by the decision …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the labor market implications of unemployment … search decisions by the unemployed – the micro effect – we are guided by equilibrium labor market theory and focus on …, and a rise in unemployment. …

Using two large US surveys, we estimate the effects of unemployment on the subjective well-being of the unemployed and … the rest of the population. For the unemployed, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are several times as large as … still employed, a one percentage point increase in local unemployment has an impact on well-being roughly equivalent to a …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not; (ii) more positive on future wellbeing than on current well … positive in MSAs within states with more generous unemployment insurance policies. …

In response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an … individual exit from unemployment, and we compare the estimated impact with that for the prior extension of benefits during the … unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …

impacts from optimal unemployment insurance policy. Here optimal policy is defined as that which maximizes total output and …