We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new … one-third of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role …

The unemployment gender gap, defined as the difference between female and male unemployment rates, was positive until … 1980. This gap virtually disappeared after 1980 - except during recessions, when men's unemployment rates always exceed … women's. We study the evolution of these gender differences in unemployment from a long-run perspective and over the …

This paper examines the causes of the observed increase in the average duration of unemployment over the past thirty … in the generosity and coverage of unemployment insurance. We find that changes in the composition of the labor force and … institutional changes can only partially account for the longer duration of unemployment. We construct a job search model and …

has not been a good predictor of whether the unemployment rate at the end of the expansion following a shift was higher or …