In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming … unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one …

how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the ….S. states, including many that experience unemployment during the transition. However, nominal rigidities reduce the overall U …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil … pervasive increases in domestic violence. Exploiting a discontinuity in unemployment insurance eligibility, we find that … and an increase in exposure of victims to perpetrators, with unemployment benefits partially offsetting the income shock …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …