Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … elasticity impacts welfare with a similar magnitude to the well-known elasticity of unemployment duration to benefit level. … duration by around 0.3%. Such result is driven by the fact that higher UI decreases the probability of job quits, which are not …

I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use … administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from the late 1970s to 1984, and non …-parametrically identify the effect of both benefit level and potential duration in the regression kink (RK) design using kinks in the schedule …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in … effects of the treatment at a certain elapsed duration compared to "no treatment at any subsequent duration". We prove …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with … unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of dying within 28 …