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 …

The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and …

This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment … half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on an unemployment payment in the initial months of the COVID-19 … pandemic, between April and June 2020, resulted in a 32 per cent lower exit rate from unemployment benefits inside the first …