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Do Unemployment Benefits Expirations Help Explain the Surge in Job Openings?

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Job openings are arguably one of the most important indicators of recovery in the labor market, as they reflect employers? willingness to hire. The number of job openings has recovered steadily since the recession, yet through the end of 2013, the openings rate was still substantially below its pre-recession peak (see chart below). Starting in January 2014, however, the number of job openings increased dramatically, up by 20 percent through June 2014, and job openings relative to employment jumped back to the peak of the previous expansion. In this post, we argue that the expiration of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program may have contributed to this rapid rise in 2014.

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  • Samuel Kapon & Fatih Karahan & Kaivan K. Sattar, 2014. "Do Unemployment Benefits Expirations Help Explain the Surge in Job Openings?," Liberty Street Economics 20140930, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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    labor markets; EUC; unemployment benefits; vacancies;
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    • J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - General
    • E2 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment

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