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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 …
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Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job … vacancy creation and employment and a rise in unemployment …
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We investigate the optimal response of unemployment insurance to economic shocks, both with and without commitment. The … transitory increase in UI is optimal; and that a policy rule contingent on the change in unemployment, rather than its level, is …
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Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job … vacancy creation, employment, and a rise in unemployment …
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, unemployment remained high. In this paper, we show that countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions lead to jobless recoveries …. We augment the standard Mortensen-Pissarides model to incorporate unemployment benefits expiration and state …-dependent extensions of unemployment benefits. In the model, an extension of unemployment benefits slows down the recovery of vacancy …
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We measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the …
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the effects of unemployment benefit extensions on the labor market and attempt to reconcile their apparently disparate … unemployment rates as an exogenous variation. Unfortunately, we find that this approach falls prey to the very problems it aims to …
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We measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the …
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