labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the nearly full recovery of unemployment from the depths …

labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment from the depths of the …

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 …

There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of …

relationship between health and wages. Our results provide empirical evidence of measurement error in the self-reported health … variable when estimating its impact on wages for men, and of selectivity bias in wages for both men and women. We also show … (and largest) among older workers (50-64 years old). Instead, during the GR the positive impact of health on wages …