Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the … unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment … benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states …, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require … employers to contribute to the payment of unemployment benefits they create through their firing decisions. It is striking that …

Using a random sample of U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) applicants from 2002-09, we find that unemployment duration …, suggesting job search is a nonstationary process characterized by declining welfare even in the very early stages of unemployment … cause than for those who voluntarily quit. These differential effects suggest that unemployment may exacerbate the earnings …

disparity in the United States and continuing high unemployment in Europe. She suggests that since the transformations will …

rating in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance system, the reserve ratio and the benefit ratio methods. Differences in layoff …

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