Unemployment Insurance and Means-Tested Program Interactions: Evidence from Administrative Data

Autor:	Christopher J. O'Leary, Pauline Leung
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Receipt education.field_of_study Layoff Earnings media_common.quotation_subject Safety net Population Unemployment Demographic economics Business education General Economics Econometrics and Finance Medicaid Welfare media_common
Zdroj:	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 12:159-192
ISSN:	1945-774X 1945-7731
DOI:	10.1257/pol.20170262
Popis:	We study the ways in which unemployment insurance (UI) benefits interact with other elements of the social safety net around job losses. We exploit a cutoff for UI eligibility, based on a workers’ highest quarterly earnings in the past year, to generate quasi-experimental variation in UI receipt. We find that UI receipt cuts welfare (TANF) receipt by half among low-earning UI applicants but has no impact on SNAP or Medicaid usage. However, because welfare participation is low in this population, overall crowdout is small. In the quarter following layoff, UI increases total income by 55 percent (including labor earnings and transfers) (JEL E24, H53, I18, I38, J64, J65).
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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