The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate … analysis of optimal UI should take a more comprehensive view of how UI affects the labor market. …

the labor force, wage rates, and demographic conditions of both the U.S. and source-area economies through the 1980s. The …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … workers are more likely unemployed, and a growing share of them leaves the labor market via disability retirement. Those … workers who are typically less attached to the labor market. …