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Contingent, Temporary Unemployment Insurance’s Impacts on Employment and Unemployment Durations

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Kailing Shen () (Xiamen University and IZA)

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This paper studies contingent, temporary unemployment insurance (UI) coverage’s impacts on employment and unemployment durations using a duration model extended with heaping considerations and a recent Canadian panel data. A unique source of identification here is the Employment Insurance (EI) reform of Canada in the 1996. Based on the estimated coefficients from the duration models, the simulations suggest that UI increases unemployment rates by 2% and 5% in the non-seasonal and seasonal sectors respectively.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2959.

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Date of creation: Jul 2007
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Keywords: unemployment insurance; unemployment durations; employment durations; heaping effect;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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