By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering … this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data … and find that they increased the unemployment rate by at most 0.3 percentage point …

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … employment is largely offset by large crowd-out effects. However, because new firms are more productive, the reform has the …

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

productivity, real wages and employment. To quantify the effects of reallocation intensity on employment, we estimate regression … other variables as instruments. We find large positive effects of worker reallocation rates on employment, especially for …. These results suggest the U.S. economy faced serious impediments to high employment rates well before the Great Recession …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough … minimum wage. We find that movements in the American real minimum wage are associated with no employment effects, whereas …

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in … asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment, whereas linear models with Gaussian innovations preclude such dynamics. This … paper applies several tests for asymmetry to aggregate British, German and US unemployment data to assess the relevance of …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … largely above its pre-recession level. We find two main explanations for these differences. First, the large employment swings …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …