change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …

Countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions in the United States act as a propagation mechanism, contributing to … both the high persistence of unemployment and its weak correlation with productivity. We show this by modifying an … otherwise standard frictional model of the labor market to incorporate a stochastic and state-dependent process for unemployment …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. -- unemployment … ; search-matching equilibrium ; wage bargaining ; reductions of social security contributions ; unemployment insurance ; labor …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

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

The generosity of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits was expanded during the pandemic (FPUC), along with the groups … counterfactual scenario that implies the national unemployment rate in each of July and August would have been around 0.3 percentage … transitions from unemployment to employment. We also present some suggestive evidence that households with relatively high …

-paying jobs. This led to a dramatic increase in inequality in labor earnings during the pandemic. Simulating standard unemployment …

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …