In December 2013, when Congress failed to reauthorize the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act, many prominent economists predicted a substantial decline in employment and labor force participation.
In a paper in the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, authors Marcus Hagedorn, Iourii Manovskii, and Kurt Mitman show, to the contrary, that this abrupt end to unemployment benefits actually led to a surge in employment and labor force growth, especially in states with larger cuts in benefit duration.
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