Manovskii, Iourii; Hagedorn, Marcus; Karahan, Fatih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the labor market implications of unemployment … search decisions by the unemployed – the micro effect – we are guided by equilibrium labor market theory and focus on … benefit extensions. In contrast to the existing literature that focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job …