Who Receives Unemployment Insurance?

Chan, M; Michaelides, M; Zhang, S

Who Receives Unemployment Insurance?

Chan, M

Michaelides, M Zhang, S

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Publisher:: Macrothink Institute
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Research in Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (3), pp. 98 - 98
Issue Date:: 2014-08-28

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dc.contributor.author	Chan, M https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-7587	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Michaelides, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zhang, S	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-08-28	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Research in Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (3), pp. 98 - 98	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1948-5433	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/33633
dc.description.abstract	This paper uses Unemployment Insurance (UI) administrative data combined with Current Population Survey data in 2003 to examine socioeconomic patterns in UI receipt for new job losers. We find that key socioeconomic groups – women, nonwhites, youth, and workers with no high school diploma – were much less likely than average to start collecting UI benefits once they lost their jobs. These differences are partly attributable to differences in part-time employment and unionization; workers in groups with low part-time employment and high unionization rates had higher than average UI receipt rates. We also find that certain groups of job losers – women, youth, workers with no college education, and blue collar workers – collected much lower benefits once they entered the program. These differences are mainly attributed to variation in benefit entitlements and other factors. Our findings enhance our understanding of the effectiveness of the UI program to serve the diverse population of new job losers in the modern US economy.	en_US
dc.publisher	Macrothink Institute	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Research in Applied Economics	en_US
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dc.title	Who Receives Unemployment Insurance?	en_US
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Abstract:

This paper uses Unemployment Insurance (UI) administrative data combined with Current Population Survey data in 2003 to examine socioeconomic patterns in UI receipt for new job losers. We find that key socioeconomic groups – women, nonwhites, youth, and workers with no high school diploma – were much less likely than average to start collecting UI benefits once they lost their jobs. These differences are partly attributable to differences in part-time employment and unionization; workers in groups with low part-time employment and high unionization rates had higher than average UI receipt rates. We also find that certain groups of job losers – women, youth, workers with no college education, and blue collar workers – collected much lower benefits once they entered the program. These differences are mainly attributed to variation in benefit entitlements and other factors. Our findings enhance our understanding of the effectiveness of the UI program to serve the diverse population of new job losers in the modern US economy.

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