The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate …

This paper examines the long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits that older unemployed can collect until … the remaining working career by seven months. Despite the corresponding reduction in unemployment, we find no evidence of …

Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of … unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job search behavior is important for assessing the … distortionary effect of unemployment insurance. Card, Chetty and Weber (American Economic Review 2007; 97: 113-118) find a large …

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look …

In the US, almost half of unemployment spells end through recall. In this paper, we show that the probability of being … recalled is much higher among unemployment benefit recipients than non-recipients. We argue that a large part of the observed … difference in recall shares is accounted for by the design of the unemployment insurance financing scheme characterized by an …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage … of layoffs are exceedingly rare. When asked why employers don't propose job-saving pay cuts, four-in-ten UI recipients … regard the proposed pay cut as insulting. An estimated one-quarter of the layoffs violate the condition for bilaterally …