Data from the 1976 wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are employed to study the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on weeks worked. OLS regressions to model labour supply behaviour are estimated for both recipients and nonrecipients of UI benefits. We find some inteesting differences between the labour supply behaviour of UI recipients and nonrecipients.
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