The effect of unemployment insurance on unemployment rate and average duration: evidence from pooled cross-sectional time-series data

Phanindra Wunnava and Syed Ali Raza Mehdi

Applied Economics Letters, 1994, vol. 1, issue 7, 114-118

Abstract: This paper empirically analyses the impact of the unemployment insurance system upon the insured unemployment rate and the average duration of unemployment. It employs a simultaneous equation framework because of possible feedback effects between the insured unemployment rate and the average duration of unemployment. Based on a pooled crosssectional time-series model (covering all the 50 states in the USA for the years 1967-88) that corrects for heteroscedasticity and autocorrelation, and the results show some support for the hypothesis that the unemployment insurance system, by providing workers with a safety net, increases both the insured unemployment rate and the duration period.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1080/135048594358104

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