In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress expanded unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in three ways. First, it … are eligible to receive UI via the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. Third, it extended the duration of …

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which … decrease in the number of days in unemployment benefits and increase in the number of days in employment. However, they also …

week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI …

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 …

containment measures during an epidemic. We incorporate a standard epidemiological model into an equilibrium search model of the … labor market to compare unemployment insurance (UI) expansions and payroll subsidies. In isolation, payroll subsidies that …

This paper explores the potential externality of welfare payments under the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program during … times of high job destruction rates and unemployment rates on the spread and mortality of COVID-19. Using data for all US …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …