Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007 …

unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the …

During the Covid-19 pandemic, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits have taken on an unprecedented role in the United … Recession peak. This is due to two factors: first, the high unemployment rate, which reached 14.7 percent in April 2020; and … aggregate spending of the employed was down by 10 percent, the spending of unemployment benefit recipients increased by 10 …

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

We investigate the optimal response of unemployment insurance to economic shocks, both with and without commitment. The … transitory increase in UI is optimal; and that a policy rule contingent on the change in unemployment, rather than its level, is …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

, and whether access to unemployment insurance attenuated this relationship. In the average labor market, property crime … rates rose by 1.5 percent following a $1000 per worker increase in import competition. Increasing unemployment insurance … indicates that 7-24 percent of the costs of increasing unemployment insurance generosity were recovered in the form of lower …

We document the effects of a change in the Italian Ordinary Unemployment Benefits Scheme on the job search process. As …

We investigate the optimal response of unemployment insurance to economic shocks, both with and without commitment. The … transitory increase in UI is optimal; and that a policy rule contingent on the change in unemployment, rather than its level, is …