that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

A vast literature has investigated how unemployment insurance (UI) affects labor supply. However, the distorting effect … deterministic relationship between previous earnings and unemployment benefits. The randomized assignment of benefits created by the … kink allows me to identify how UI affect the use of private wealth to finance consumption during unemployment spells. Using …

. Consequently, entrant workers have lower job-finding rates and longer unemployment durations than the unemployed who have looked …

This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in … the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend … components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the …

Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a …

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

emerging economies. No link between digital adoption and the unemployment rate is found, however. To explain this evidence, we … build a general equilibrium search-and-matching model with endogenous labor force participation, self-employment, endogenous …