Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data

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 acc...

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Main Authors: Alex Bell, Thomas J. Hedin, Peter Mannino, Roozbeh Moghadam, Geoffrey Schnorr, Till von Wachter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2023-05-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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