unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives … to shift effort towards helping the disabled find jobs and away from helping the unemployed. Interestingly, in the short …

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform … on search effort and labor market attachment, and lower the reservation wage of the unemployed, with negative effects on … post-unemployment wages. I test these ideas on longitudinal data from Social Security records (LLMDB). Using a difference …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

', local development policies are fairly ineffective in raising the local unemployment outflow, because labor markets overlap …

', local development policies are fairly ineffective in raising the local unemployment outflow, because labor markets overlap …

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform … on search effort and labor market attachment, and lower the reservation wage of the unemployed, with negative effects on … post-unemployment wages. I test these ideas on longitudinal data from Social Security records (LLMDB). Using a difference …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … support "stock-flow" matching. Estimates find that around 50% of newly unemployed workers match quickly - they are interpreted … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …