people in January 2013 - or 15.1 percent of all Americans - and the Unemployment Insurance Program (UI), which more than …

Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …

We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection … job losses matters. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that private unemployment insurance in the US can be … profitable for a relatively short exclusion length of one year. To stimulate the emergence of a private unemployment insurance …