Unemployment Compensation and Episodes of Nonemployment.
This paper examines the influence of unemployment insurance (UI) on the length of nonemployment spells experienced by young workers. The analysis introduces a flexible duration model to estimate the effects of the weekly benefit amount and weeks of eligibility on the amount of time spent between jobs by men, distinguishing between the experiences of UI and non-UI recipients the empirical findings suggest three conclusions: (1) UI recipients experience longer spells of nonemployment than their non-UI recipient counterparts, at least up to the point of exhaustion of UI benefits; (2) the level of the weekly benefit amount does not significantly affect the length of nonemployment spells; and (3) increasing the number of weeks of eligibility offered by a UI program leads to longer episodes of nonemployment.
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1992
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Authors: | Gritz, R Mark ; MaCurdy, Thomas |
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Empirical Economics. - Department of Economics and Finance Research and Teaching. - Vol. 17.1992, 1, p. 183-204
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Department of Economics and Finance Research and Teaching |
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