unemployment. In the optimal welfare program, assisted search is implemented between an initial spell of private search … (unemployment insurance) and a final spell of pure income support where search effort is not elicited. To be effective, job …

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

This paper examines how unemployment affects retirement and whether the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system and Social … consistent evidence of an effect. This suggests that in some ways SS may serve as a more effective form of unemployment insurance …

One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to increase UI coverage in the face … of longer unemployment spells. Although it is a common concern that such extensions may themselves raise nonemployment …

The majority of papers analyzing the employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit durations focuses on the … duration of the first unemployment spell. In this paper, we make two contributions. First, we use a regression discontinuity … they incorporate differences in UI benefit receipt and employment due to recurrent unemployment spells. Second, we derive a …

candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …, and between individuals with differing unemployment durations. I then use these hazards to explore a variety of …

This paper examines unemployment duration and the incidence of claims following a 36 percent increase in the maximum …

We consider the role of spousal labor supply as insurance against spells of unemployment. Standard theory suggests that … reason for the absence of the AWE may be that unemployment insurance (UI) is providing a state-contingent income stream that … counteracts the negative income shock from the husband's unemployment. We in fact find that increases in the generosity of UI …

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 …