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Title: The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance: A Study of New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: New Brunswick and Maine are an adjacent Canadian province and U.S. state with similar populations, climates and natural resource endowments. Before 1972, these jurisdictions had roughly similar unemployment insurance UI systems; after that the Canadian system was much more generous, especially to workers with very short work histories. Using the five decennial censuses over the period 1940-1991, we use the comparison between these two jurisdictions over time to estimate the long-term effects of UI program parameters on labor market outcomes. We find that New Brunswick's shift to a more generous UI system in 1972 significantly increased the frequency of part-year work, especially among women, and not only in seasonal industries. Simple "difference" estimates of this policy change based on data from NB alone understate the effects of the change for women because they do not account for a secular downward trend in part-year work in the face of a stable UI system, as is clearly evident in the data from Maine.

Url: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.196.9910&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Authors: Kuhn, Peter; Riddell, Chris

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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