, triggering concerns about its substantial impact on unemployment. This paper combines a labor market search-matching model with … the SIR-type infection dynamics to study the effects of CARES UI on both unemployment and infection. More generous UI … policies create work disincentives and lead to higher unemployment, but also reduce infection and save lives. Economic shutdown …

The CARES Act implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis dramatically increases the generosity of unemployment … insurance (UI) benefits, triggering concerns about its substantial impact on unemployment. This paper combines a labor market … search-matching model with the SIR-type infection dynamics to study the effects of CARES UI on both unemployment and …

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

rich individual-level data from the quarterly Labor Force Surveys. We find that the lockdown increases the unemployment …

provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For … degree of competition in the goods market and the institutional setup of the unemployment compensation system. Furthermore …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

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 …