The Great Recession has renewed interest in unemployment insurance (UI) programs
around the world. At the same time, there have been important advances in both theory and …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at
the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical …

One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to
increase UI coverage in the face of longer unemployment spells. Although it is a common …

There is surprisingly little research into the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) on
postunemployment wage outcomes. Moreover, the few existing studies are sufficiently …

We study how the marginal welfare gain from increasing the unemployment insurance (UI)
benefit level varies over the business cycle. We do this by estimating how the moral hazard …

We provide evidence that unemployment insurance affects equilibrium conditions in the
labor market, which creates significant “market externalities.” We provide a framework for …

This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment
by exploiting cross-state variation in the maximum benefit duration during the Great …

In 1911, Britain introduced the first publically financed and administered unemployment
insurance system. This legislative event signalled a trend in Western economies, with …

Nearly two years after the official end of the" Great Recession," the labor market remains
historically weak. One candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic …

Ever since the US federal–state system of unemployment insurance was founded in the
1930s, it has provided partial, temporary replacement of wages to eligible workers who lose …