This paper is aimed at investigating the effects of government intervention through unemployment benefits on …

firms, 3) partly offset by unemployment benefits, and 4) amplified by concurrent drops in partners’ earnings. On net …

. Adjustment costs of changing benefits can introduce hysteresis in benefit setting and unemployment. Both (very) bad and good … unemployment benefits in response to an unemployment shock in a simple, reduced-form model of the labor market. It is found that … temporary shocks (including monetary) can permanently reduce unemployment benefits and the unemployment rate. A desirable …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes.We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

unemployment over the business cycle, it implies a far too strong rise of the unemployment rate when unemployment benefits rise … of unemployment but at the same time implies a reasonable elasticity of unemployment with respect to benefits …

This paper explores the potential externality of welfare payments under the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program during … times of high job destruction rates and unemployment rates on the spread and mortality of COVID-19. Using data for all US …

, 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 use mean-field game theory to quantitatively compare two unemployment insurance (UI) extension policies commonly … unemployment rates relative to a moderate, long-lived increase in benefits and (2) both policies deliver approximately the same ex …