Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295947 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16924
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In June 2020, Idaho announced the Return to Work Bonus program, which provided residents who returned to work with bonuses of up to $1,500. Using multiple data sources, we present difference-in-differences, triple differences, and synthetic control estimates suggesting the program may have increased individual employment and accelerated flows into employment from unemployment and from nonparticipation in the labor force. We show the program likely increased state-level employment rates. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to study the effects of reemployment bonuses on the U.S. labor market outside an experimental setting.
Subjects: 
reemployment bonus
unemployment insurance
employment
JEL: 
J08
J64
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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