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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects / Marcus Hagedorn, Fatih Karahan, Iourii Manovskii, Kurt Mitman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hagedorn, Marcus.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19499.
- NBER working paper series no. w19499
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- Equilibrium labor market theory suggests that unemployment benefit extensions affect unemployment by impacting both job search decisions by the unemployed and job creation decisions by employers. The existing empirical literature focused on the former effect only. We develop a new methodology necessary to incorporate the measurement of the latter effect. Implementing this methodology in the data, we find that benefit extensions raise equilibrium wages and lead to a sharp contraction in vacancy creation, employment, and a rise in unemployment.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2013.
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