During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect. Using data from the large job board … effect on job vacancies. Job seekers thus faced reduced competition for jobs, a general equilibrium effect. Calibration …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) increased US unemployment benefits … from the online jobs platform Glassdoor. We exploit variation in the proportional increase in benefits across local labor … benefits, which supports our identification assumption. First, we find that a 10% increase in unemployment benefits caused a 3 …

Why is the employment effect of the minimum wage frequently found to be close to zero? Theory tells us that when wages … - where wages are more likely to be below marginal productivity - experience significantly more positive employment effects … from the minimum wage. While increases in the minimum wage are found to significantly decrease employment of workers in low …

. We estimate a differentiated jobs model using application data from Careerbuilder.com. We find direct evidence of …

few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate …

The U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system operates as a federal-state partnership, where states have considerable … population. We study how these differences in state rules create a gap in the unemployment insurance that Black and White … unemployed workers receive. Using administrative data from random audits on UI claims in all states, we first document a large …

, evidence on green energy jobs has been limited due to measurement issues. We use data on nearly all jobs posted online in the … US, as collected by Burning Glass Technology, and we create a new measure of green jobs, defined here as solar and wind … jobs. We use job titles and task requirements to define green jobs. We find that both solar and wind job postings have more …

concentrated markets account for 20% of employment. Many plausible alternative market definitions show that more than …