We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a … neighborhood employment rate increases the probability of having a job six months after displacement by 0.9 percentage points. The …

restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … market restrictions, and linked register data 1999-2016. We document large negative employment and earnings effects of …

restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … market restrictions, and linked register data 1999-2016. We document large negative employment and earnings effects of …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment … unemployment. This implies a negative relationship between the UI unemployment duration and wage effects, which holds empirically …

. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity is strongly associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …