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The long-term effects of a generous income support program: unemployment insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940 - 1991

Author(s) : Kuhn, Peter , Riddell, Chris
Description : Using data spanning a half century for adjacent jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada, we study the long-term effects of a very generous unemployment insurance (UI) program on weeks worked. We find large effects. For example, in 1990, about 6 percent of employed men in Maine's northernmost counties w...
Language(s) : English
Subject(s) : J22 , J64 , ddc:330 , unemployment insurance , labor supply , Canada , income support
Publisher(s) : IZA Bonn
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Publication Date(s) : 2006-01-01