We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI … duration elasticity to UI, implying small general equilibrium effects of UI extensions. …

Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable … first line out a framework for treatment effect heterogeneity with two interdependent outcomes, such as duration and wages …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

This paper discusses the effects of a higher unemployment benefit replacement rate on unemployment durations …, employment and earnings. A reform of the Swiss unemployment insurance in July 2003 increased the replacement rate by up to 5 … approach. The increase in the replacement rate increased unemployment durations, while it did not affect post-unemployment …

In most countries, the unemployed are entitled to unemployment benefits only if they have previously worked a minimum … period of time. This institutional feature creates a sharp change at eligibility in the disutility from unemployment and may … distort the duration of jobs. In this paper, we evaluate this eligibility effect using a regression discontinuity approach …