We examine the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) experience rating on layoffs using high quality firm and …

Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has focused on the costs of the program, in terms of the distorting … effects of generous UI benefits on worker and firm behavior. For assessing the optimal size of an unemployment insurance … replacement rate leads to a consumption fall upon unemployment which is 2.7% smaller. Over this period, the average fall in …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil … pervasive increases in domestic violence. Exploiting a discontinuity in unemployment insurance eligibility, we find that … and an increase in exposure of victims to perpetrators, with unemployment benefits partially offsetting the income shock …

This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and low unemployment versus high tax and high … unemployment) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large temporary shocks initiate … possible that the transition to the high-unemployment steady state after a negative shock can be avoided if the government …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …

extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

Analyzing a cross-country panel of 16 OECD countries from 2002 to 2005, we find that higher unemployment benefits crowd …

people in January 2013 – or 15.1 percent of all Americans – and the Unemployment Insurance Program (UI), which more than …