The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

likely to exist also in other countries -- Unemployment ; Optimal Unemployment Insurance ; Liq-uidity Constraints ; Mental …

Search, and these unique data allow the opportunity to estimate the effects of weekly unemployment insurance claims, in … addition to monthly unemployment rates, on search indexes for “depression” and “anxiety.” Results from state fixed effects … models that include year and week dummies yield 1) a positive relationship between the unemployment rate and the depression …

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 … eligibility rules are not effectively enforced, so any income replacement must reduce work incentives and increase unemployment …

received unemployment insurance (UI) between 2014 and 2016 across 18 states to evaluate the role that UI plays in mitigating …

This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of an enhancement in unemployment benefits in Korea. In particular, I … unemployment insurance (UI) system in Korea. The quantitative analysis conducted here shows that extending maximum benefit …

causes deficient aggregate demand and thereby unemployment in the presence of nominal wage stickiness attributable to union … wage setting. In this long-run stagnation, generous unemployment benefits reduce unemployment. Moreover, paradoxically …, unemployment declines if labor unions give more weight to nominal wage gains compared with employment increases …

We analyze the general equilibrium effects of countercyclical unemployment benefit policies. Our heterogenous …-agent model features costly job search with imperfect insurance of unemployment risk and individual savings. Our model predicts …: (1) the additional unemployment under a countercyclical policy relative to that under an acyclical policy to be a …

This paper investigates the impact of endogenous unemployment insurance (UI) extensions on the dynamics of unemployment … for the maximum UI duration to depend on unemployment and for UI benefits to depend on worker characteristics. UI … extensions have a large effect on long-term unemployment during the Great Recession via job search responses and a moderate …