We use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute … the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement … implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and July 2020, 76% of workers eligible for regular Unemployment …

Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job … vacancy creation, employment, and a rise in 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 …

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 …

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 …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

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 …

of unemployment in a recession. Quantitatively, when evaluated under empirically relevant parameters, we find it unlikely …