Before 1979, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were not treated as taxable income in the United States. Several … has had the predicted effect of reducing unemployment duration.The study uses data on a sample of persons that filed for … presents persuasive evidence of a tax effect on unemployment duration. The 1979 policy change is estimated to have reduced …

In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

We study how the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with … moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is relatively low. By contrast, our evidence suggests … standard deviation increase in the unemployment rate leads to a roughly 14 to 27 percentage point increase in the welfare …

of unemployment insurance and work from home. We use Current Population Survey and Social Security application data to … expiration of expanded unemployment insurance, we find that the loss of these additional financial supports is associated with a … drop in older adult unemployment rates and an increase in Social Security Disability Insurance claiming. Social Security …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … health and incentives matter in the decision to exit from the labor market. Based on these results, we simulate the effect of …

The Affordable Care Act includes four significant, permanent, implicit unemployment assistance programs, plus various …

foregone unemployment insurance about equally erode the rewards from retaining a job, or starting a new one …