Who helps the unemployed? Workers’ receipt of public and private transfers

Edwards Kathryn Anne ()
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Edwards Kathryn Anne: RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA

IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, vol. 9, issue 1, 26

Abstract: I use longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to measure the extent to which an unemployment spell increases the likelihood that a worker receives a cash transfer from family. I examine the prevalence of cash transfers from family, the demographic distribution of unemployed receivers, and the variation between family supported and not family supported spells. I further investigate how this informal, private assistance relates to public transfers from Unemployment Insurance using state-by-year variation in the UI program. I find that unemployment increases the probability a worker receives financial assistance from their family, inclusive of all demographic subgroups, that family cash transfer receipt is growing over time, and is weakly related to UI availability.

Keywords: Unemployment; unemployment insurance; transfers; racial inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D64 J15 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/izajole-2020-0004

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