"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while …

week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI …

This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …

individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005-2007) and the recent recession (2009 … jobs in the expansion period until the time of unemployment benefit expires. Individuals who are most affected by the … financial crisis tend to be males, those aged 16-24 and 40-51 years, those living in regions with higher unemployment rates …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …