Online Appendix: Unemployment Insurance Programs and the Choice to Leave the Labor Force

Appendix A:  Conversion of Equations (8) through (30) in the text to percentage-change expressions.  App_percent_change_equilibrium

Appendix B:  Deriving conditional probabilities of labor-status transition.  App_conditional_probabilities

Appendix C:  Calibrating the theoretical model of the US Economy.  App_Calibration_Simulation_Model

Appendix D:  Evidence of Robustness of Empirical Results. App_Robustness

Appendix E:  Was there a spike in hiring in North Carolina after reform?  App_NC_Hiring_Spike

Appendix F:  What role does Disability play in the “Not in the Labor Force” transitions?  App_Disability_Impact

Appendix G:  Comparing and contrasting this paper’s results with those of Depken and Gaggl (2018). App_Depken_Gaggl

Appendix H:  The theoretical difference in search intensity for those ineligible for UI benefits.  App_Theory_ineligible_search_intensity

Appendix I:  What is the empirical difference in transition for those individuals with long spells of continuous unemployment?  App_Persistent unemployment characteristics

Appendix J:  Preparing the data for regression analysis.  App_Data_Download  Conway_run_UI_log

Appendix K:  How common is it for North Carolina to differ significantly from ROUS in labor transition?  App_NC_Exceptionalism