New research from @caseymcquillan.bsky.social and Brendan Moore sheds light on the administrative, informational, and structural barriers that keep eligible workers from receiving unemployment insurance and explains how those gaps influence labor market dynamics.

Barriers to Benefits: Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects

Research finds that efforts to destigmatize unemployment insurance could increase program take-up among eligible workers at a cost-effective price.

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I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the Economics Department at Stockholm University as an Assistant Professor, following a postdoc at Brown University’s Economics Department and Watson School!

🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER 🚨🚨🚨 "Barriers to Benefits: Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects (with Brendan Moore) ➡️ We ran a large-scale field experiment among 50k likely eligible workers to study the role of information frictions in the incomplete take-up of UI

Making the case for expanding UI eligibility to more workers, based on our recent working paper with @equitablegrowth.bsky.social

Washington Center for Equitable Growth@equitablegrowth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Broadening access to UI benefits can help marginally attached workers find stable, higher-paying jobs." More from @caseymcquillan.bsky.social and Brendan Moore on how unemployment insurance is more than a safety net, but a pathway to stronger long-term earnings:

🚨🚨🚨 MY JOB MARKET PAPER 🚨🚨🚨 "Incomplete and Endogenous Take-Up of Unemployment Insurance Benefits" (with Brendan Moore) ➡️ We study how the generosity of UI benefits affects take-up and the implications for optimal policy.

Casey McQuillan’s job market paper studies how unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects take-up and optimal policy design. esd.wa.gov/media/pdf/42...

Programs like unemployment insurance, are rarely mentioned as positive-sum (unlike, say trade). But research by Casey McQuillan (@caseymcquillan.bsky.social) and Brendan Moore shows how UI generates value by allowing job-seekers to find better job matches nominalnews.substack.com/p/unemployme...

More than a Safety Net – Value Created by Unemployment Benefits

Welfare programs, like unemployment insurance, are rarely mentioned as policies that are positive-sum.

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🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER: "The Benefits of UI for Marginally Attached Workers" with Brendan Moore ➡️ We find that UI minimally delays re-employment, but substantially improves labor market outcomes for low-income workers 🧵1/13