Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Miles Corak and Wen-Hao Chen ()

No 811, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Administrative data on the universe of employees, firms, and unemployment insurance (UI) recipients in Canada over an 11 year period are used to examine the operation of UI using the firm as the unit of analysis. Persistent transfers through UI are present at both industry and firm levels, and an analysis using firm fixed effect indicates that an important fraction of variation in them can be attributed to firm effects. Calculations of overall efficiency loss are very sensitive to the degree to which firm level information is used. A full appreciation of how UI interacts with the labour market requires recognition of the characteristics and human resource practices of firms.

Keywords: unemployment insurance; payroll taxes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H25 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2003-06
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Published - published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 299-336

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