The CARES Act Unemployment Insurance Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lei Fang, Jun Nie and Zoe Xie

Policy Hub, 2020, vol. 2020, issue 16, 7

Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 led to widespread shutdowns in March and April 2020 and an historically unprecedented increase in the generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) through the CARES Act. This article summarizes the key policy-relevant results from Fang, Nie, and Xie (2020), whose research examines the interactions of virus infection risk, shutdown policy, and increased UI generosity.

Keywords: COVID-19; CARES Act; unemployment insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.29338/ph2020-16

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