Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13103404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alex Bell (0000-0002-8636-9030, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Thomas J Hedin (University of California, Los Angeles), Peter Mannino (University of California, Los Angeles), Roozbeh Moghadam (University of California, Davis), Geoffrey Schnorr (University of California, Los Angeles), Till Von Wachter (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 78-109 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2377-8253 • E-ISSN: 2377-8261 |
| Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7758/rsf.2023.9.3.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4368363821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 6 |
To what extent did jobless Americans benefit from unemployment insurance (UI) during the COVID-19 pandemic? This article documents geographic disparities in access to UI during 2020. We leverage aggregated and individual-level claims data to perform an integrated analysis across four measures of access to UI. In addition to the traditional UI recipiency rate, we construct rates of application among the unemployed, rates of first payment among applicants, and exhaustion rates among paid claimants. Through correlations across California counties and across states, we show that areas with more disadvantaged residents had less access to UI during the pandemic. Although these disparities are large in magnitude, cross-state analysis suggests that policy can play a salient role in mitigating them
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |