| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w30252 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 30252 |
| Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System | |
| Daphné Skandalis; Ioana Marinescu; Maxim N. Massenkoff | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-07-18 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system operates as a federal-state partnership, where states have considerable autonomy to decide on specific UI rules. This has allowed for systematically stricter rules in states with a larger Black population. We study how these differences in state rules create a gap in the unemployment insurance that Black and White unemployed workers receive. Using administrative data from random audits on UI claims in all states, we first document a large racial gap in the UI that unemployed workers receive after filing a new claim. Black claimants receive an 18% lower replacement rate (i.e., benefits relative to prior wage, including denials) than White claimants. In principle, the replacement rate of each claimant mechanically depends on the rules prevailing in her state and on her work history (e.g., the earnings before job loss and the reason for separation from prior employer). Since we observe claimants' UI-relevant work history and state, we are in a unique position to identify the role of each factor. After accounting for Black-White differences in work history, differences in rules across states create an 8% Black-White gap in replacement rate (i.e., slightly less than half of the overall gap). Using a standard welfare calculation, we show that states with the largest shares of Black workers would gain the most from having more generous UI rules. Altogether, our results highlight that disparate state rules in the UI institution create racial inequality without maximizing overall welfare. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Labor Discrimination |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30252 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587924 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daphné Skandalis,Ioana Marinescu,Maxim N. Massenkoff. Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System. 2022. |
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| w30252.pdf（3478KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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