Using variations in unemployment insurance policies over time and across U.S. states, this paper provides evidence that … rates and may lower the unemployment rate both in a steady state stationary economy and over a transition path during 2008 …

The CARES Act implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis dramatically increases the generosity of unemployment … insurance (UI) benefits, triggering concerns about its substantial impact on unemployment. This paper combines a labor market … search-matching model with the SIR-type infection dynamics to study the effects of CARES UI on both unemployment and …

In the US, workers must satisfy two requirements to receive unemployment insurance (UI): a tenure requirement of a …

In many search models of the labor market, unemployment insurance (UI) is conveniently interpreted as the value of … two equilibrium models of unemployment: random search and directed search. In a random search model without taxes …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness …

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … benefits. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study …

the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …