This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

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 …

This paper studies the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) in low-income countries characterized by high …

pandemic recession. We first measure the contribution of temporary layoffs to unemployment dynamics over the period 1979 to the … due to "loss-of-recall", whereby workers in temporary-layoff unemployment lose their job permanently and do so at higher … both temporary-layoff and jobless unemployment. The model captures well pre-pandemic unemployment dynamics and shows how …

This paper provides estimates of the effect of unemployment insurance benefits on labor supply outcomes over the … nonlinear benefit schedules provides experimental estimates of behavioral labor supply responses throughout the unemployment … spell that are comparable over time. For a given unemployment duration, the behavioral effect of UI benefit levels on labor …

Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience …

We study the labor market effects of permanent 23-50% reductions in unemployment insurance benefits available in seven …

-term unemployment assistance (UA). The reform raised the minimum age to receive unlimited-duration UA from 52 to 55. Using a difference …

We use micro data on earnings together with the details of each state's unemployment insurance (UI) system to compute … the distribution of UI benefits after the uniform $600 Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) supplement … implemented by the CARES Act. We find that between April and July 2020, 76% of workers eligible for regular Unemployment …