Extended unemployment benefits programs are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate demand … conditions often vary dramatically. Some tight local labor markets may therefore exhibit a large effect of extended unemployment … benefits. Using a competing risk duration model, this paper measures the size of the entitlement effect across two labor …

unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social … loss, unemployment duration and hysteresis. The resulting formula is simple and easy to understand and implement. We apply …This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different …

larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given that the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated … heterogeneity. This exercise suggests that extending the current U.S. unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with …

extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while … reduced UI benefits extend unemployment duration for individuals transitioning into self-employment but shorten unemployment …Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe …

extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while … reduced UI benefits extend unemployment duration for individuals transitioning into self-employment but shorten unemployment …Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in …

In the midst of sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment benefit (UB) eligibility extensions … ‘laws of economics' to warn that the extensions may be responsible for much of the current unemployment crisis. This … eligibility rules are not effectively enforced, so any income replacement must reduce work incentives and increase unemployment …

focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … and in particular by the conditions in the firms in which they were previously employed. -- unemployment duration … focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical …

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …