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. …

Much attention has been given to the large increase in safety net spending, particularly in Unemployment Insurance and … Tax Credit, and Unemployment Insurance--in buffering families from negative economic shocks. This analysis yields several …

individuals who exhaust their Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits use DI as a form of extended benefits. We exploit the haphazard …

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 …

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … 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 …

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 …