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Title: The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: Using data spanning half a century for adjacent jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada, we study the long-term effects of a very generous unemployment insurance (UI) program on the distribution of weeks worked among all workers. We find large effects. For example, in 1990, about 6 percent of employed men in Maine's northernmost counties worked fewer than 26 weeks per year; just across the border in New Brunswick that figure was over 20 percent. According to our estimates, New Brunswick's much more generous UI system accounts for about two thirds of this differential. Even greater effects are found among women and less-educated men. We argue that both the generosity and permanence of the policy changes studied here may help explain their substantial effects on a region's entire labor force.

Url: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5136176

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Authors: Kuhn, Peter; Riddell, Chris

Publisher: University of California, Santa Barbara

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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