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 …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … (market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … (market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

vacancy creation and employment and a rise in unemployment …Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job … search decisions by the unemployed and job creation decisions by employers. The existing empirical literature focused on the …

Beveridge curve, and the labour flows data (unemployment to employment) evidence offer little support for the orthodox …In the midst of sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment benefit (UB) eligibility extensions … ‘laws of economics' to warn that the extensions may be responsible for much of the current unemployment crisis. This …

wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … (market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … (market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system in the United States has played a decisive lifeline role in effectively … before - despite that the average duration of unemployment had almost doubled in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The … reviews the empirical evidence from the pandemic on potential demand-side (countercyclical stabilization) and supply-side (job-search …