that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

This paper measures the effect of the ongoing extensions of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the unemployment … extensions of UI benefits contributed to an increase in the unemployment rate by 1.4 percentage points, which is about 30 percent … unemployment rate increased from 2009 to 2011; while the number of vacancies has been recovering, the unemployment rate has …

This paper measures the effect of the ongoing extensions of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the unemployment … extensions of UI benefits contributed to an increase in the unemployment rate by 1.4 percentage points, which is about 30 percent … unemployment rate increased from 2009 to 2011; while the number of vacancies has been recovering, the unemployment rate has …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …