A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners’ employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women’s labor market choices and outcomes … Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market … participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between …

attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

preferences for public sector employment and employers. In fixed effects specifications, we demonstrate that feelings of job … insecurity, experiences with wage arrears, and spells of unemployment all increase the attractiveness of work in the public …

-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy … increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high … school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … Great Recession. Second, many of those losing jobs are not actively looking to find new ones. As a result, we estimate the … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

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 …

Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect …

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 …