This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … income loss associated with a weak labor market. We also estimate the impact of UI generosity on retirement and find little … for older workers than UI. …

duration to be convincingly separated from effects on incidence. The results show a sharp fall in the hazard of leaving UI that …This paper examines unemployment duration and the incidence of claims following a 36 percent increase in the maximum … incidence of claims and with this change in incidence biasing duration estimates. The evidence further suggests that, at least …

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 … lower labor supply among wives of unemployed husbands. Our results suggest that UI is crowding out a sizeable fraction of …

One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to increase UI coverage in the face … differential effects of UI in booms and recessions, this paper exploits the fact that, in Germany, potential UI benefit duration is … nonemployment effects of a month of additional UI benefits are, at best, somewhat declining in recessions. Yet, the UI exhaustion …

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 … design to analyze the long-term effects of extensions in UI durations. These estimates differ from standard estimates that …

We study how the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with … that the consumption smoothing benefit of UI is acyclical. Using these estimates to calibrate our model, we find that a one …

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 … comparisons intended to distinguish the effects of UI extensions from other determinants of employment outcomes. The various …