We measure the effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment. We exploit the variation induced by the decision …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the labor market implications of unemployment …, and a rise in unemployment. …

The flow opportunity cost of moving from unemployment to employment consists of foregone public benefits and the … business cycle. The estimated cyclicality implies far less unemployment volatility in many leading models of the labor market …

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 …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …

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

-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low …