How should unemployment benefits respond to the business cycle?

Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 155-176

  Kiley, Michael T ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Time Varying Benefits; Unemployment Insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 13444271006     PISSN: 15380653     EISSN: 15380653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1538-0653.1066     Document Type: Article

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