large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … efficient separations that holds in leading theories of job separations, frictional unemployment, and job ladders. We draw on …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering … this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data … and find that they increased the unemployment rate by at most 0.3 percentage point …

This paper studies the implications of individuals' knowledge of future job loss for the existence of an unemployment …

unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …

We measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the …

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 …