In this paper we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle on unemployment duration. We … construct durations for individuals entering unemployment from a longitudinal sample of Spanish men in 1987-1994. Estimated … discrete hazard models indicate that receipt of unemployment benefits significantly reduces the hazard of leaving unemployment …

The effect of generous unemployment benefits on the propensity of individuals to stay on unemployment was hotly debated … during the COVID pandemic. This paper examines the impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) using rich … response from men. The baseline odds of exiting versus staying on unemployment rolls (holding all else constant) for females is …

, unemployment remained high. In this paper, we show that countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions lead to jobless recoveries …. We augment the standard Mortensen-Pissarides model to incorporate unemployment benefits expiration and state …-dependent extensions of unemployment benefits. In the model, an extension of unemployment benefits slows down the recovery of vacancy …

We show in a union-bargaining model that a decrease in the unemployment benefit level increases not only equilibrium …-term wage contracts lead to highter expected real wages and hence higher expected unemployment than short-term contracts …

We show in a union-bargaining model that a decrease in the unemployment benefit level increases not only equilibrium …-term wage contracts lead to higher expected real wages and, hence, higher expected unemployment than short-term contracts …

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

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 newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …

Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job … vacancy creation and employment and a rise in unemployment …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …