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. …

We measure the effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment. We exploit the variation induced by the decision …-sectional differences across U.S. states and we exploit a policy discontinuity at state borders. We find that a 1% drop in benefit duration …

benefit extensions. In contrast to the existing literature that focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment … from a regression kink design that exploits the quasi-experimental variation around the kink in the UI benefit schedule. We … find that UI durations are more responsive to benefit levels during the recession and its aftermath, with an elasticity …

In response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an … the timing and size of the UI benefit extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on … unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …

standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …