Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223783 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13341
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the quasi-experimental variation around the kink in the UI benefit schedule. We find that UI durations are more responsive to benefit levels during the recession and its aftermath, with an elasticity between 0.65 and 0.9 as compared to about 0.35 pre-recession.
Subjects: 
unemployment insurance
benefits
labor supply
employment
unemployment
JEL: 
J64
J65
D91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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