Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits in history through the creation of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. This …

During the Covid-19 pandemic, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits have taken on an unprecedented role in the United … Recession peak. This is due to two factors: first, the high unemployment rate, which reached 14.7 percent in April 2020; and … aggregate spending of the employed was down by 10 percent, the spending of unemployment benefit recipients increased by 10 …

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system in the United States has played a decisive lifeline role in effectively … before - despite that the average duration of unemployment had almost doubled in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The … introduce - for example in Europe - a common unemployment insurance scheme for macroeconomic stabilization. …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate …

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

of 2009, including the unemployment, inflow, and outflow rates by workers of different educational attainment. We … the short term, but can cause a higher equilibrium unemployment rate in the long term. Employment subsidies succeed in … lowering the unemployment rate permanently, but the policy entails high fiscal costs. -- Employment ; unemployment ; hiring …