introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required … people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training … a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …

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 …

change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …

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