employment is largely offset by large crowd-out effects. However, because new firms are more productive, the reform has the …We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started …

foregone unemployment insurance about equally erode the rewards from retaining a job, or starting a new one …

Before 1979, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were not treated as taxable income in the United States. Several … has had the predicted effect of reducing unemployment duration.The study uses data on a sample of persons that filed for … presents persuasive evidence of a tax effect on unemployment duration. The 1979 policy change is estimated to have reduced …

they get used to the lower benefit level. The model fits the typical pattern of the exit from unemployment, even with no … evaluate using a unique reform. In 2005, Hungary switched from a single-step UI system to a two-step system, with unchanged …

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 …

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

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 …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect. Using data from the large job board … implies that the general equilibrium effect reduces the impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment by 40%: increasing …