Arbeitspapier

Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits: Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States

In response to the 2007-09 “Great Recession,” the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the normal level of 26 weeks to an unprecedented 99 weeks. I estimate the impact of these extensions on job search, comparing them with the more limited extensions associated with the milder 2001 recession. The analyses rely on monthly matched microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by about 1.5 weeks, with little variation across the two episodes. This estimate lies in the middle-to-upper end of the range of past estimates.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8247

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
Thema
unemployment benefits
job search

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Valletta, Robert G.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Valletta, Robert G.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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