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

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 …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …