Unemployment insurances are perceived as major benefits to support workers in their job
findings. This thesis contributes to the pre-existent literature through researching the impact of
the unemployment benefits on the companies’ hirings and permanent layoffs, due to a lack of
research on this matter. Using state and firm-specific variables, this study analyses the absolute
and percentage impact on number of companies’ employees. For two of the overall performed
regression models, higher amounts of unemployment insurances seem to impact positively the
number of companies’ employees
