EI Impacts on Unemployment Durations and Benefit Receipt:

Download or read book EI Impacts on Unemployment Durations and Benefit Receipt: written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research addresses some of the effects of the move from Unemployment Insurance (UI) to Employment Insurance (EI) on individuals' behaviour. The main questions are the extent to which the move from UI to EI caused a significant change in the durations that individuals remain unemployed and the durations that individuals spend in receipt of UI/EI benefits. Adopting a primarily quasi-experimental approach, the research assesses the effects of the UI to EI move as a whole, without attempting to disentangle the individual contributions of the various new legislative provisions. The methodology, which builds on job search analysis and uses duration-modelling of the determinants of the hazard out of unemployment or UI/EI benefit receipt, also has some more structural elements in the modelling of demographic & regional effects, and in the treatment of seasonality. The work uses the Canadian Out of Employment Panel dataset, linked to UI/EI administrative records, and exploits a straightforward before/after methodology using different cohorts of the Panel to identify overall effects of the move from UI to EI.