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Three Essays On Unemployment Insurance In The 21St Century, Lewis H. Warren
Three Essays On Unemployment Insurance In The 21St Century, Lewis H. Warren
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
My dissertation consists of three essays focusing on unemployment insurance (UI) and how it affects recipients. The first essay examines how UI generosity affects the search intensity of recipients through matching American Time Use Survey respondents to all of their observations in the Current Population Survey (CPS), the population from which they are drawn. Earnings from the CPS are then run through a benefit calculator that determines eligibility and benefit amounts which are used to determine how UI generosity affects search times. The second essay uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine how lesser known policies affecting …