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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In this article we investigate the disincentive effects of shortening the potential duration of
unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. We identify these disincentive effects by exploiting …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit
amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in
Missouri affected search behavior of UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a …

By Rafael Lalive* and Phillip B. Levine (2000); Lalive and Josef Zweimüller (2004); Jan C.
van Ours and Milan Vodopivec (2006b); and Card, Raj Chetty, and Andrea Weber (2006) …

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 …

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