Introduction: a tale of two unemployments -- Men at home: reconfiguring space during mens unemployment -- Idealizing the home and spurning the workplace? -- Dinner table diaries -- Can women be ideal job-seekers? -- Why don't unemployed men do more housework? -- Why do unemployed women do even...

We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality, exploiting matched administrative and survey data with individual-level information on UB receipt, formal and informal employment, wages and consumption. Using a...