Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …

Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment … insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates the effects of … a reform in Finland that increased the level of unemployment assistance by 22%. The reform led to a drop of 9% in the …

reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is …

protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates based on local projections find negative short-run effects of …