New COVID-19 Research from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Discussed (Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data): Coronavirus – COVID-19

2023 MAY 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx COVID-19 Daily -- A new study on COVID-19 is now available. According to news originating from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “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.”

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): “We leverage aggregated and individual-level claims data to perform an integrated analysis across four measures of access to UI. In addition to the traditional UI recipiency rate, we construct rates of application among the unemployed, rates of first payment among applicants, and exhaustion rates among paid claimants. Through correlations across California counties and across states, we show that areas with more disadvantaged residents had less access to UI during the pandemic.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Although these disparities are large in magnitude, cross-state analysis suggests that policy can play a salient role in mitigating them.”

For more information on this research see: Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023,9(3):78-109. (RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences - http://www.rsfjournal.org). The publisher for RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is Russell Sage Foundation.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.04.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Alex Bell, UCLA.

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