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 …

through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

In response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an … individual exit from unemployment, and we compare the estimated impact with that for the prior extension of benefits during the … unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …

This paper analyses the impact of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) extensions on jobseeker households in selected …

compensate the losers the government is assumed to introduce unemployment benefits (UB). These benefits are financed by either a …