Unemployment Dynamics and Endogenous Unemployment Insurance Extensions

W. Similan Rujiwattanapong

No 1909, Discussion Papers from Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM)

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of endogenous unemployment insurance (UI) extensions on the dynamics of unemployment and its duration structure in the US. Using a search and matching model with worker heterogeneity, I allow for the maximum UI duration to depend on unemployment and for UI benefits to depend on worker characteristics. UI extensions have a large effect on long-term unemployment during the Great Recession via job search responses and a moderate effect on total unemployment via job separations. Disregarding rational expectations about the timing of UI extensions implies an overestimation of the unemployment rate by over 2 percentage points.

Keywords: Business cycles; Long-term unemployment; unemployment insurance; Unemployment duration; Rational expectations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 J24 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2019-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-ias, nep-lab, nep-mac and nep-ore
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