Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data

Alex Bell; Thomas J. Hedin; Peter Mannino; Roozbeh Moghadam; Geoffrey Schnorr; Till von Wachter

doi:10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.04

Article Information

vol. 9 no. 3 78-109

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.04

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 4, 2023.

© 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Bell, Alex, Thomas J. Hedin, Peter Mannino, Roozbeh Moghadam, Geoffrey Schnorr, and Till von Wachter. 2023. “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 9(3): 78–109. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.3.04. The California Policy Lab produced the figures and calculations through an ongoing partnership with the Labor Market Information Division of the California Employment Development Department. Any statements should only be attributed to the California Policy Lab, and do not reflect the views of the Labor Market Information Division of the California Employment Development Department. The calculations were performed solely by the California Policy Lab, and any errors or omissions are the responsibility of the California Policy Lab, not of the Labor Market Information Division of the California Employment Development Department. We thank the participants of the RSF Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 conference for their valuable feedback on this project. We also thank Matthew Forbes and Ziqi Zhao for providing helpful research assistance. Direct correspondence to: Till von Wachter, at tvwachter@econ.ucla.edu, 283 Bunche Hall MC 147703, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Alex Bell^a,
Thomas J. Hedin^b,
Peter Mannino^c,
Roozbeh Moghadam^d,
Geoffrey Schnorr^e and
Till von Wachter^f

^aPostdoctoral scholar at the California Policy Lab at the University of California Los Angeles, United States
^bPhD student in economics at the University of California Los Angeles, United States
^cData analyst at the California Policy Lab at the University of California Los Angeles, United States
^dPhD student at the University of California Davis, United States
^ePostdoctoral scholar at the California Policy Lab at the University of California Los Angeles, United States
^fProfessor of economics at the University of California Los Angeles, United States