We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … employment is largely offset by large crowd-out effects. However, because new firms are more productive, the reform has the …

Reemployment bonus experiments offer large lump sum payments to unemployment insurance (UI) recipients who find a job … Illinois and discusses the implications of the experiments for theories of unemployment and policy design. I examine the hazard … rate of exit from unemployment and find that it is significantly higher for the experimental groups, but only during the …

sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria …

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 provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 6th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … Great Recession. Second, many of those losing jobs are not actively looking to find new ones. As a result, we estimate the … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … largely above its pre-recession level. We find two main explanations for these differences. First, the large employment swings …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response closely approximates the … estimated change in the unemployment rate following the benefit cut, suggesting that even in a period of high unemployment the …

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 …