An Empirical Analysis of Recent Legislative Changes to Unemployment Insurance: The Effects of Bill C-21 and the 1994 Budget

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. S12
Author(s):  
Michael Kidd ◽  
Michael Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Legislative Changes

Qualifying for Unemployment Insurance: An Empirical Analysis

1997 ◽  
Vol 107 (440) ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Green ◽  
W. Craig Riddell
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Unemployment Insurance

scholarly journals Evidence on Rule Manipulation and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Program

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Gibran Da Silva Teixeira ◽  
Giácomo Balbinotto Neto ◽  
Pedro Henrique Soares Leivas
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Moral Hazard ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Insurance Program ◽  
Using Data ◽  
National Labor Market

This article aims to examine the existence of rule manipulation and moral hazard in the Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Program. For empirical analysis, the rule manipulation test by Cattaneo, Janson and Ma (2016) was used, as well as fuzzy and sharp regression discontinuity. The data was built using data from the National Employment and Unemployment Survey from January 2008 to June 2014 due to the greater homogeneity of the rules for benefit access. Based on the results, the program is an influence on the length of employment of Brazilian workers given the existence of rule manipulation, assessed by the length of stay in the last job. Furthermore, it was found that heads of families and their children were less likely to search for employment. This findings were corroborated when data from the program beneficiaries only was assessed, showing a lower job search probability, between -21.80 p.p. and -15.08 p.p. for the children, and between -39.40 p.p. and -28.50 p.p. for the heads of families. Thus, it is possible to confirm the existence of both rule manipulation the access of the program, as well as moral hazard, which points to the need to restructure the program, and above all, have less influence on the national labor market.

The Labor Supply Consequences of Employment-Limiting Social Insurance Benefits: New Tests for Income Effects

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry R Hyatt
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Payroll Tax ◽  
Insurance Benefits ◽  
Income Effects ◽  
Price Distortion ◽  
Compensation Claim ◽  
Legislative Changes

Abstract Studies of moral hazard in employment-limiting social insurance programs such as Unemployment Insurance or Workers Compensation have demonstrated that higher benefits discourage work, emphasizing the price distortion inherent in benefit provision. Utilizing administrative data linking Workers’ Compensation claim records to wage records from an Unemployment Insurance payroll tax database, I explore a different explanation and implement tests for “income effects” that exploit the fact that claimants no longer experience a distorted price of non-employment after an employment-limiting benefit ends. A pair of legislative changes to a Workers’ Compensation benefit rate show little or no evidence of income effects and moderate evidence of income effects, respectively.

Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer / Employment and Unemployment of the Elderly

2007 ◽  
Vol 227 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Müller ◽  
Ralf A. Wilke ◽  
Philipp Zahn
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
German Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Unemployment Insurance System

SummaryIn 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits of the older unemployed in the subsequent years. This paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group is of particular interest because it lost a smooth early retirement path via the unemployment benefits scheme. In our empirical analysis we use German administrative individual data drawn form the registers of the federal employment agency and of the public pension funds. After the reform we expect a lower risk of unemployment and shorter unemployment durations for the considered age group. This is confirmed by our empirical analysis. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the expense of the unemployment insurance. In particular larger companies and their employees use extended entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for early retirement purposes.

An Empirical Analysis of the Obtrusiveness of and Participants' Compliance with the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR)

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias R. Mehl ◽  
Shannon E. Holleran
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Data Confidentiality ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Audio Recorder ◽  
Term Monitoring

Abstract. In this article, the authors provide an empirical analysis of the obtrusiveness of and participants' compliance with a relatively new psychological ambulatory assessment method, called the electronically activated recorder or EAR. The EAR is a modified portable audio-recorder that periodically records snippets of ambient sounds from participants' daily environments. In tracking moment-to-moment ambient sounds, the EAR yields an acoustic log of a person's day as it unfolds. As a naturalistic observation sampling method, it provides an observer's account of daily life and is optimized for the assessment of audible aspects of participants' naturally-occurring social behaviors and interactions. Measures of self-reported and behaviorally-assessed EAR obtrusiveness and compliance were analyzed in two samples. After an initial 2-h period of relative obtrusiveness, participants habituated to wearing the EAR and perceived it as fairly unobtrusive both in a short-term (2 days, N = 96) and a longer-term (10-11 days, N = 11) monitoring. Compliance with the method was high both during the short-term and longer-term monitoring. Somewhat reduced compliance was identified over the weekend; this effect appears to be specific to student populations. Important privacy and data confidentiality considerations around the EAR method are discussed.

Empirical Analysis of Clinical Evaluations on Children Involved in the Child Protection System: The Role of Age and Gender

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Felix ◽  
Anjali T. Naik-Polan ◽  
Christine Sloss ◽  
Lashaunda Poindexter ◽  
Karen S. Budd
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Clinical Evaluations ◽  
And Gender
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