The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt : New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013
David Card, Andrew Johnston, Pauline Leung, Alexandre Mas, Zhuan Pei
We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the quasi-experimental variation around the kink in the UI benefit schedule. We find that UI durations are more responsive to benefit levels during the recession and its aftermath, with an elasticity between 0.65 and 0.9 as compared to about 0.35 pre-recession
Year of publication: |
January 2015
|
---|---|
Authors: | Card, David |
Other Persons: | Johnston, Andrew (contributor) ; Mas, Alexandre (contributor) ; Leung, Pauline (contributor) ; Pei, Zhuan (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Arbeitslosenversicherung | Unemployment insurance | Dauer | Duration | Arbeitslosigkeit | Unemployment | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Schätzung | Estimation |
Saved in:
freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
---|---|
Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w20869 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w20869 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457797