Unemployment insurance taxes are experience-rated to penalize firms that dismiss workers. We examine whether experience rating acts as an automatic stabilizer in the labor market. We exploit the fact that penalties for layoffs vary by state using detailed data on state tax schedules, and we...

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei Aufsätzen aus den Bereichen Arbeitsmarktökonomie, berufliche Vorsorge und Sozialpolitik, die sich mit den Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gesetzgebung und makroökonomischer Schocks auf individuelle Verhaltensweisen befassen. Der erste Aufsatz behandelt die...

I use three decades of county-level data to estimate the effects of federal unemployment benefit extensions on economic activity. To overcome the reverse causality coming from the fact that benefit extensions are a function of state unemployment rates, I only use the within-state variation in...

This paper looks at the evolution of the labour markets in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since the beginning of transition (in some respects since 1996/1998) until 2003, with a particular focus on labour force participation. How did labour supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in to...