search and matching frictions and incorporate a US unemployment insurance experience rating system. Layoff taxes based on … experience rating finance the cost of unemployment benefits and create considerable employment adjustment costs. Our framework … helps realign the search and matching model with the empirical properties of its most salient variables. The model …

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 …

Using an administrative dataset covering 2 million job loss events we analyze the impact of unemployment insurance (UI …

loss. These results are mainly driven by those students whose fathers suffer long unemployment spells. In contrast, the …

Can governmental policies mitigate the effects of recessions on unemployment? We study whether the Swiss short …-time work (STW) program reduced unemployment in the 2009-2015 period using quarterly establishment-level panel data linking … several administrative data sources. We compare changes in permanent layoffs into unemployment, hiring from unemployment …

Although New Keynesian models with labor market frictions found an increase in unemployment and a decrease in labor … volatilities of unemployment and labor market tightness are not as high as their empirical counterparts. This calls for the … volatility of unemployment and labor market tightness in response to a positive technology shock compared to the model without on …