We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

pandemic recession. We first measure the contribution of temporary layoffs to unemployment dynamics over the period 1979 to the … due to “loss-of-recall”, whereby workers in temporary-layoff unemployment lose their job permanently and do so at higher … both temporary-layoff and jobless unemployment. The model captures well pre-pandemic unemployment dynamics and shows how …

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

province. We find significant positive effects on persistence in postsecondary education institutions, earnings and employment …

dynamics in the tradition of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994). Our estimates discern 5 distinct types. Most unemployment comes … from just two of those types. Low employment types frequently circle among unemployment, short-term jobs, and being out of … the labor market. Short-term jobs play a role in the job-finding process related to the role of unemployment. These are …

We examine the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) experience rating on layoffs using high quality firm and …

of unemployment spell durations. A job search model that allows for recalls is shown to lead naturally to a competing … risks specification of the distribution of layoff unemployment spell durations in which recall and the taking of a new job … are alternate routes for leaving unemployment. A large sample of individual layoff unemployment spell observations derived …