much more from job loss than do others. Those who have held their jobs for an extended period experience substantial … earnings losses, while those who have been employed for brief periods experience small losses. Like other job losers, long … other job losers, many long-tenure displaced workers become re-employed at significantly lower wages. EI does not take into …

. Canada’s Employment Insurance does not take into account this salient feature of the consequences of job loss. The paper … discusses ways of addressing this deficiency in our primary social insurance program for job losers. …

administrative data marking the job separation, we track all of their sources of income over an interval that spans four years prior …

consumption smoothing benefit of UI is acyclical. Using these estimates to calibrate our job search model, we find that a one …