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THE IMPACT OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS ON THE PROBABILITY OF MIGRATION OF THE UNEMPLOYED *
Author(s) -
Goss Ernie,
Paul Chris
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9787.1990.tb00104.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , compensation (psychology) , economics , sample (material) , labour economics , demographic economics , economic growth , psychology , chemistry , chromatography , psychoanalysis
By ignoring individual unemployment compensation benefits and conditions of job termination, past migration research has concluded that personal unemployment doubles the likelihood of interstate labor‐force migration. Findings from the present study indicate that aggregating the unemployed, without adjusting for these two factors, overstates the probability of migration for the involuntarily unemployed benefit recipient and understates the likelihood of migration for the voluntarily unemployed benefit recipient. The results suggest that federal discretionary unemployment‐compensation programs, which are implemented during recessionary periods, likely serve to retard out‐migration of those who are involuntarily unemployed.