We investigate the impact of workers' exposure to unemployment risk on CEO incentive compensation. Exploiting state …-level changes in unemployment benefits as a source of variation in workers' unemployment costs, we find that after unemployment …

wage and unemployment duration. We consider a model of household job search in which the outcomes of bargaining are … unemployment duration: the more the husband earns, the longer the wife searches for a job; whereas the more the wife earns, the … sooner the husband finds a job. Secondly, an increase of $100 in unemployment insurance (UI) per month lowers employment rate …