TY  - JOUR
AU  - Meyer,Bruce D.
AU  - Rosenbaum,Dan T.
TI  - Repeat Use of Unemployment Insurance
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5423
PY  - 1996
Y2  - January 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5423
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5423.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Bruce D. Meyer
Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-2712
Fax: 773/702-0926
E-Mail: bdmeyer@uchicago.edu

Dan T. Rosenbaum
E-Mail: drosenbaum@omb.eop.gov
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1996-12-01
AB  - We examine the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) insures workers against unforeseen events or subsidizes firms and workers engaged in temporary layoffs.  Our main source of data is a 5- year panel of UI administrative records from five states.  While most claimants receive UI only once during this period, nearly forty percent of claims go to those individuals with three or more years of receipt during the 5-year period.  Most repeat recipients are concentrated in seasonal industries and are laid off by the same employer each time.  We also find that middle-aged and high-paid workers are more likely to be repeat recipients, suggesting that workers in bad jobs are not the individuals who repeatedly receive UI.
ER  -