Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance and the Incidence of Unemployment

摘要: AMONG workers who are laid off from their previous jobs, more than 70 percent collect benefit payments the unemployment insurance (UI) system.' These benefits widely asserted to reduce rate at which unemployed individuals find new so that measured is increased by insurance. A large body of empirical evidence now exists shows this effect on duration spells.2 Far less attention-both in policy debate and research-has been paid fact system encourages persons become unemployed. In paper, I focus structure effects these incentives. The results show unem-