Unemployment Insurance is the main U.S. government program that helps workers who lose a job through no fault of their own. By paying eligible workers a portion of their normal wage while they look for work, Unemployment Insurance mitigates the hardship faced by individual unemployed workers and simultaneously stabilizes the macroeconomy. Equitable Growth works to stimulate and disseminate research on the role Unemployment Insurance plays in the lives of workers and the economy as a whole.
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Planning for the next recession by reforming U.S. automatic stabilizers
May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019
A Valentine’s Day love letter to the Unemployment Insurance program
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February 14, 2019
The importance of unemployment benefits for protecting against income drops
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Sources of displaced workers’ long-term earnings losses
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Consumer spending during unemployment: Positive and normative implications
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‘OK, Boomer’: How millennials have been left behind in the recovery from the Great Recession
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A Valentine’s Day love letter to the Unemployment Insurance program
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The macro-effects of unemployment insurance: A simulation-based discontinuity design approach
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July 25, 2018
Sources of displaced workers’ long-term earnings losses
February 1, 2018
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The importance of unemployment benefits for protecting against income drops
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Scraping by: Income and program participation after the loss of extended unemployment benefits
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Consumer spending during unemployment: Positive and normative implications
April 25, 2017
April 25, 2017
What new administrative data reveals about access to consumer credit and the U.S. economy
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