Who is concealing earnings and still collecting unemployment benefits?

David Fuller, B Ravikumar and Yuzhe Zhang ()

The Regional Economist, 2013, issue Apr

Abstract: Concealed earnings represent the largest source of fraud in the U.S. unemployment insurance system. Individuals with relatively low earnings constitute a larger fraction of those committing such fraud. High-earnings individuals, however, account for larger dollar amounts of this fraud.

Keywords: Unemployment insurance; Fraud (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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