suggest that generous unemployment insurance and a dual-earner norm shield families from financial distress, which together …

leads to shorter non-employment duration and higher reemployment wages, plausibly driven by on-the-job search. Using … variation in notice duration across firms, we estimate the productivity loss of notice. The estimates of benefits and costs …

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 …

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 … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the … empirical literature studying the “China shock.” We find that the China shock leads to average welfare increases in most U ….S. states, including many that experience unemployment during the transition. However, nominal rigidities reduce the overall U …

show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …