extended unemployment benefits. Using a competing risk duration model, this paper measures the size of the entitlement effect …Extended unemployment benefits programs in the US are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate … job hazard, the entitlement effect is stronger in low unemployment labor markets. This finding is robust across a number …

Extended unemployment benefits programs are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate demand … conditions often vary dramatically. Some tight local labor markets may therefore exhibit a large effect of extended unemployment … benefits. Using a competing risk duration model, this paper measures the size of the entitlement effect across two labor …

) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … unemployment duration among UI claimants observed in these cases is due to the extended benefits or to the adverse labor market …Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …

I use three decades of county-level data to estimate the effects of federal unemployment benefit extensions on economic … activity. To overcome the reverse causality coming from the fact that benefit extensions are a function of state unemployment … as an instrument to estimate local fiscal multipliers of unemployment benefit transfers. I find (i) that the overall …

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … unemployment durations. …

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 …