Unemployment Insurance Effect on Unemployment

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In a 1990 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research, labor economist Lawrence Katz found that "The results indicate that a one week increase in potential benefit duration increases the average duration of the unemployment spells of UI recipients by 0.16 to 0.20 weeks."

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Wall Street Journal, Stimulating Unemployment, 7/20/2010 -- cites a 1990 study for the NAtional Bureau of Economic Research