The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Levels on Recipiency

Brian McCall

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1995, vol. 13, issue 2, 189-98

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of unemployment insurance benefit levels on recipiency. Increasing benefit levels (as measured by the fraction of weekly earnings of the lost job that they replace) is found to significantly increase the probability of unemployment insurance recipiency among the eligible. There is some evidence, however, that the effect is smaller at high replacement rates. Cost increases resulting from take-up responses are found to be substantial for increases in the state's maximum benefit amount and for increases in the weekly benefit amount in low-replacement-rate states.

Date: 1995
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (28)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bes:jnlbes:v:13:y:1995:i:2:p:189-98

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.amstat.org/publications/index.html

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics is currently edited by Jonathan H. Wright and Keisuke Hirano

More articles in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics from American Statistical Association
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Christopher F. Baum ().