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 …

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic
inequality Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents …

This article estimates workers' preferences for firms by studying the structure of employer-to-
employer transitions in US administrative data. The article uses a tool from numerical linear …

We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between
alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective …

Contrary to standard search models predictions, past studies have not found a positive effect
of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. We estimate a positive UI wage …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

We show that helping young job seekers signal their skills to employers generates large and
persistent improvements in their labour market outcomes. We do this by comparing an …

This article develops a model of noncompetitive labor markets in which high-wage (good)
and low-wage (bad) jobs coexist. Minimum wages and unemployment benefits shift the …

This paper constructs a tractable general equilibrium model of search with risk aversion. An
increase in risk aversion reduces wages, unemployment, and investment. Unemployment …

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