We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …

-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … unemployment, but not in terms of wages, compared to males. Policymakers may consider the importance of implementing diverse …

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 …

unemployment or having to file for unemployment benefits during the pandemic are strongly and significantly associated with …

Many countries impose job search requirements as a condition of unemployment benefit receipt, but there is relatively …

We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult … life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and …, parental unemployment can also have a positive effect depending on the age and gender of the child. Our results are robust even …