50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …

have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. …

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 build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the self-reported reservation wage predicts whether a job offer is accepted or … rejected; (3) the reservation wage is remarkably stable over the course of unemployment for most workers, with the notable … devoted to job search and the reservation wage help predict early exits from Unemployment Insurance (UI). …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …