In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

Unemployment Insurance benefit durations were extended during the Great Recession, reaching 99 weeks for most …-2014, we estimate the effect of extended benefits on unemployment exits separately during the earlier period of benefit …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the …

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 job …

I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use … administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from the late 1970s to 1984, and non …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

We investigate the optimal response of unemployment insurance to economic shocks, both with and without commitment. The … transitory increase in UI is optimal; and that a policy rule contingent on the change in unemployment, rather than its level, is …