scholarly journals Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Spells

Econometrica ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce D. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Unemployment Spells

How do Unemployment Insurance and Recall Expectations Affect on-the-job Search among Workers Who Receive Advance Notice of Layoff?

ILR Review ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Burgess ◽  
Stuart A. Low
Keyword(s):  
Random Sample ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Experience Rating ◽  
Advance Notice ◽  
Unemployment Spells

This paper explores how advance notice of layoffs, recall (rehiring) expectations, and unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affected on-the-job search among a random sample of Arizona UI recipients in 1975–76. The analysis, which includes extensive controls for the characteristics of workers and their jobs, indicates that pre-unemployment search increased with length of notice and decreased with expected recall. Also, among workers not expecting recall, pre-unemployment search decreased with the level of UI benefits available after layoff. The authors argue that improved experience rating would encourage firms to give employees advance notice when layoffs are imminent, and re-employment bonuses for workers with zero or short unemployment spells would encourage early search.

Race and Employment Dislocation in California's Aerospace Industry

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Ong ◽  
Janette R. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Aerospace Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Insurance Benefits ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Latino Workers ◽  
Unemployment Spells ◽  
Better Than ◽  
New Jobs

This article finds that African American and Latino workers have borne a disproportionate share of employment costs associated with defense cuts in California's aerospace industry. The data for this analysis come from administrative files, which contain demographic and employment-related information for everyone who collects unemployment-insurance benefits. The analysis shows that African Americans suffered higher displacement rates, longer unemployment spells, and poorer outcomes in new jobs than whites. Latinos were disadvantaged in several ways, but not consistently in all categories. Asian Americans, on the other hand, generally fared better than whites. These results show that economic dislocation, in the form of defense cuts, reinforces racial inequality in the labor market.

scholarly journals Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment Duration, and Excess Supply of Labour

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 368-378
Author(s):  
Dennis R. Maki
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Excess Supply ◽  
Duration Of Unemployment ◽  
Unemployment Spells

This paper examines the effect of the unemployment insurance scheme on the duration of unemployment spells in Canada in the period 1953-1973.

The Wealth of the Unemployed

ILR Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Unemployment Spell ◽  
Unemployment Spells ◽  
The Unemployed

Many studies have investigated the adequacy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits as a form of income replacement, but few have looked at other resources with which the unemployed can finance their unemployment spells. This paper focuses on one form of resources, own wealth holdings. The author finds that the median worker's financial assets can cover roughly two-thirds of the income loss from an unemployment spell. Wealth holdings vary tremendously, however, and almost one-third of workers are unable to replace even 10% of their income loss. Moreover, predicted wealth holdings decline precipitously with realized unemployment durations, both absolutely and (especially) relative to actual income loss. This finding, together with the finding that individuals who are eligible for more generous UI draw down their wealth more slowly than do others during unemployment spells, suggests that UI benefit adequacy could be increased if the benefits were targeted to those with longer unemployment spells.

The Long-Term Effects of UI Extensions on Employment

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (3) ◽  
pp. 514-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes F Schmieder ◽  
Till von Wachter ◽  
Stefan Bender
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Unemployment Spell ◽  
Unemployment Spells

The majority of papers analyzing the employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit durations focus on the duration of the first unemployment spell. In this paper, we make two contributions. First, we use a regression discontinuity design to analyze the long-term effects of extensions in UI durations. These estimates differ from standard estimates in that they incorporate differences in UI benefit receipt and employment due to recurrent unemployment spells. Second, we derive a welfare formula of UI extensions that incorporates recurrent nonemployment spells.

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