the effects of unemployment insurance on measured and actual employment, unemployment and non-participation. The data are … effect of UI on unemployment duration and temporary layoffs. The results are rather inconclusive, but suggest the importance …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

competition, search and matching in its labor market, and wage bargaining. Some of the workers searching for jobs end up being … unemployed. Countries are similar except for frictions in their labor markets. We study the interaction of labor market … rigidities and trade impediments in shaping welfare, trade flows, productivity, price levels and unemployment rates. We show that …

employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our … help employment for the unemployed, they do neither confirm the existence of adverse effects on the future regular …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job … dynamics—but not employment dynamics—during the pandemic. Second, benefit expansions allow us to study the MPC of normally low …

Before 1979, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were not treated as taxable income in the United States. Several … unemployed persons to conduct longer than socially optimal job searches. Since 1979, however, UI benefits received by persons in … has had the predicted effect of reducing unemployment duration.The study uses data on a sample of persons that filed for …

vacancy creation, employment, and a rise in unemployment …Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job … search decisions by the unemployed and job creation decisions by employers. The existing empirical literature focused on the …

We measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the … benefit duration leads to a statistically significant increase of employment by 0.019 log points. In levels, 2.1 million … individuals secured employment in 2014 due to the benefit cut. More than 1.1 million of these workers would not have participated …

the effects of unemployment benefit extensions on the labor market and attempt to reconcile their apparently disparate … unemployment rates as an exogenous variation. Unfortunately, we find that this approach falls prey to the very problems it aims to …

By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering … this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data … and find that they increased the unemployment rate by at most 0.3 percentage point …