Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … dynamic treatment effects and mediation analyses, we find PBD to affect wages even for workers who do not change unemployment …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

This paper discusses the effects of a higher unemployment benefit replacement rate on unemployment durations …, employment and earnings. A reform of the Swiss unemployment insurance in July 2003 increased the replacement rate by up to 5 … approach. The increase in the replacement rate increased unemployment durations, while it did not affect post-unemployment …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …

Job displacement poses a serious earnings threat to long-tenured workers through unemployment spells and lower re …-employment wages. The prevailing method of insuring job displacement losses involves an uncoordinated combination of unemployment … to the administrative complexity of unemployment insurance systems. If both options are operational, systematic …