Lachowska, Marta; Sorkin, Isaace; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2022
-wage workers are less likely to claim and more likely to have their claims appealed than median-wage workers, and firm effects …We use administrative data to quantify the firm role in unemployment insurance (UI) take-up. First, there are firm … effects in both claiming and appeals, and, consistent with deterrence effects, these are negatively correlated. Second, low …