Economics, Econometrics and Finance
4 years ago

Unemployment benefits extension program leads to earlier benefit exhaustion.

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Journal of Public Economics
Extended benefits and the duration of UI spells: evidence from the New Jersey extended benefit program
David Card, Phillip B. Levine

Paper Summary

The study looked at a program in New Jersey that gave extra unemployment benefits for 6 months in 1996. It found that this program made more people use up their regular benefits, with some collecting benefits for an extra week. If the program had started earlier, even more people would have used up their benefits.

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