Part-Time Work and Crowding-Out Implications of Employment Insurance Pilot Initiatives

Stephanie Lluis and Brian McCall
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Stephanie Lluis: Department of Economics, University of Waterloo

No 1701, Working Papers from University of Waterloo, Department of Economics

Abstract: We apply a difference-in-differences estimation approach to analyze the effect of four Employment Insurance program initiatives which took place between 2004 and 2009 in a subset of Canadian Employment Insurance regions. The pilots increased the generosity of the EI system regarding EI eligibility, benefit amount, benefit duration and the allowable earning criteria. These pilots were run in about 50% of the EI regions until August 2008 providing a quasi-experimental setting to analyze the impact of increased generosity of EI on labour market outcomes. We use the Labour Force Survey data to study the aggregate impact of the four pilots on monthly labour force transitions into employment, unemployment and nonemployment as well as job search behaviour.

JEL-codes: J62 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 69 pages
Date: 2017-01, Revised 2017-01
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