unemployment. In the optimal welfare program, assisted search is implemented between an initial spell of private search … (unemployment insurance) and a final spell of pure income support where search effort is not elicited. To be effective, job-search … search-first") emphasize private job-search and provide assistance in finding and retaining a durable employment. This paper …

standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … consistent evidence of an effect. This suggests that in some ways SS may serve as a more effective form of unemployment insurance …

One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to increase UI coverage in the face … of longer unemployment spells. Although it is a common concern that such extensions may themselves raise nonemployment … than in booms. Using a model of job search with liquidity constraints, we also find that, in the absence of market …

The majority of papers analyzing the employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit durations focuses on the … duration of the first unemployment spell. In this paper, we make two contributions. First, we use a regression discontinuity … they incorporate differences in UI benefit receipt and employment due to recurrent unemployment spells. Second, we derive a …

candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … as many as 99 weeks. This paper investigates the effect of these UI extensions on job search and reemployment. I use the … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …

unemployment benefit serves the purpose of lowering the search risk faced by workers. The increasing and regressive labor tax …This paper studies the optimal redistribution of income inequality in a model with search and matching frictions in the … labor market. We study this problem in the context of a directed search model of the labor market populated by homogeneous …

undirected search. A fixed-term contract of length J is modeled as a tax on separations of workers with tenure higher than J …

This paper examines unemployment duration and the incidence of claims following a 36 percent increase in the maximum …

We consider the role of spousal labor supply as insurance against spells of unemployment. Standard theory suggests that … reason for the absence of the AWE may be that unemployment insurance (UI) is providing a state-contingent income stream that … counteracts the negative income shock from the husband's unemployment. We in fact find that increases in the generosity of UI …