We measure the effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment. We exploit the variation induced by the decision …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the labor market implications of unemployment …, and a rise in unemployment. …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not; (ii) more positive on future wellbeing than on current well … positive in MSAs within states with more generous unemployment insurance policies. …

In response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an … individual exit from unemployment, and we compare the estimated impact with that for the prior extension of benefits during the … unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …

We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact … wage determination and employment which extends the current literature on equilibrium wage determination with matching and … of assortative matching between workers and jobs due to complementarities between worker and job characteristics. We use …

This paper studies the optimal redistribution of income inequality in a model with search and matching frictions in the … allocation, can be attained using a positive unemployment benefit and an increasing and regressive labor income tax. The positive … unemployment benefit serves the purpose of lowering the search risk faced by workers. The increasing and regressive labor tax …

Much attention has been given to the large increase in safety net spending, particularly in Unemployment Insurance and … Tax Credit, and Unemployment Insurance--in buffering families from negative economic shocks. This analysis yields several …

individuals who exhaust their Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits use DI as a form of extended benefits. We exploit the haphazard …