to identify the elasticity of unemployment insurance filings with respect to search intensity. Applying our elasticity … estimate to the state-level Google Trends indexes for the topic "unemployment", we show that out-of-sample forecasts made ahead … the demand for unemployment insurance. In addition, we provide a robust assessment of the uncertainty surrounding these …

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 …

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

method to estimate the causal effect of this scheme on unemployment duration and on beneficiaries' wages. Intended for … beneficiaries. On one hand, it had a "disincentive" effect on their job search efforts, increasing their unemployment duration … employees who have previously received unemployment benefits, this subsidy seems to have produced contrasting effects on the …

considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to … unemployment in the short run by 80,000 persons …

We develop a multi-sectoral matching model to predict the impact of the lockdown on the US unemployment, considering … and business closures that hit the workers with the first level of education explains the abruptness of the unemployment …-crisis unemployment level could be reached in 2024 in a scenario with a double wave. In the same scenario, a calibration on French data …