Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/262397 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 22-369
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
We use administrative data to quantify the firm role in unemployment insurance (UI) take-up. First, there are firm effects in both claiming and appeals, and, consistent with deterrence effects, these are negatively correlated. Second, low-wage workers are less likely to claim and more likely to have their claims appealed than median-wage workers, and firm effects explain a large share of these income gradients. Third, high-claiming and low-appealing firms are desirable firms: they are higher-paying and have lower separation rates. Finally, the dominant source of targeting error in the UI system is that eligible workers do not apply. Our findings emphasize a novel dimension of the role of firms in the labor market, and have implications for the financing of UI.
Subjects: 
Unemployment insurance
take-up rates
UI claims
appeals
firm effects
JEL: 
H25
J63
J65
L20
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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