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 …

Much attention has been given to the large increase in safety net spending, particularly in Unemployment Insurance and … Tax Credit, and Unemployment Insurance--in buffering families from negative economic shocks. This analysis yields several …

individuals who exhaust their Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits use DI as a form of extended benefits. We exploit the haphazard …

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 …

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