conditions. A one percentage point increase in unemployment is associated with an increase in the after-tax income poverty rate … responsive to unemployment when using regional variation. Low percentiles of both income and consumption are sensitive to …

This paper examines unemployment duration and the incidence of claims following a 36 percent increase in the maximum …

This paper studies the role of unemployment in sterling's interwar experience. According to most narrative accounts …, the proximate cause of the 1931 sterling crisis was a high and rising unemployment rate that placed pressure on British … currency crises, highlights the conflict between the objective of low unemployment and defense of the currency and show that it …

We examine the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) insures workers against unforeseen events or subsidizes …

-varying tax which is used to finance a fringe benefit. While we use data from the experience-rated unemployment insurance (UI …

We examine the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) experience rating on layoffs using high quality firm and …

unemployment spells are less likely to file. We show that if the decision to file for UI is affected by benefit levels and the … expected duration of unemployment, it will bias estimates of the effects of UI on unemployment duration …

Recently, there has been extensive experimental evaluation of reforms of the unemployment insurance (UI) system. The UI … which people leave the unemployment insurance rolls. They also show that speeding claimants' return to work appears to …

of higher unemployment insurance benefits, individuals who filed just before and just after sixteen benefit increases are … period of unemployment insurance receipt by about one week. This effect is precisely estimated and found using several … approaches. the incidence of layoffs resulting in unemployment insurance claims is unaffected by the increases. The evidence does …

Reemployment bonus experiments offer large lump sum payments to unemployment insurance (UI) recipients who find a job … Illinois and discusses the implications of the experiments for theories of unemployment and policy design. I examine the hazard … rate of exit from unemployment and find that it is significantly higher for the experimental groups, but only during the …