This paper argues that unemployment insurance increases labor productivity by
encouraging workers to seek higher productivity jobs, and by encouraging firms to create …

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 …

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 …

The problem studied in this paper is how current systems of providing and financing
unemployment insurance (UI) affect the private decisions that generate unemployment. It is …

THE questions posed in the papers Classen and Holen publish here and in the Ehrenberg-
Oaxaca and Burgess-Kingston papers presented at the conference but published …

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 …

Many studies have identified the work disincentive effects of unemployment insurance. This
paper points out the entitlement effect of this and other social insurance programs on …

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 …

This chapter examines the labor supply effects of social insurance programs. We argue that
this topic deserves separate treatment from the rest of the labor supply literature because …

In this paper, we investigate whether unemployment benefits should decrease with the
unemployment spell in a model where both job search intensity and wages are …