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 …

We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data … effect of unemployment benefits leveraging on discontinuous changes in eligibility. Regression discontinuity estimates … suggest that unemployment benefits covering 3 to 5 months after displacement completely offset potential crime increases upon …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …

country: RS is weaker in firms with more women and less educated workers; RS involves an element of risk sharing, as wages …

We study the effects of parental job loss on children and how access to unemployment benefits can mitigate these … unemployment benefits effectively mitigates some of the intergenerational impacts of job loss, notably on teenage school dropouts …

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

We study the effects of job loss and unemployment insurance (UI) on health among Brazilian workers. We construct a …

While many employees risk losing their job and having their career disrupted due to employers' financial distress, it … costs of financial distress depend on employees learning and acting on future layoff risk. To this end, we use random … from taxes and transfers. To assess the value of information, we estimate a model where risk averse workers learn about …

This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …) differences across European countries in the role played respectively by unemployment and labor force participation. The model …