Primary Outcomes (end points)
Primary outcomes of interest from the first stage are:
UI application rate [Timeframe: 2,4,6 months after initial mailing]
UI recipiency rate [Timeframe: 2,4,6 months after initial mailing]
Baseline characteristics of applicants (demographics such as age, gender, veteran status, disability status) [Timeframe: 2,4,6 months after initial mailing]
Baseline characteristics of recipients [Timeframe: 2,4,6 months after initial mailing]
The primary outcomes of interest from the second stage concern labor supply. These outcomes will be measured by the number of weeks on UI (proxied by number of weekly payments), non-employment duration, re-employment wages, and occupation (to the extent available -- see explanation)- and industry-switching. We will follow these second stage outcomes over the following two years after the intervention.
We will investigate whether the treatment has heterogeneous effects according to workers' previous experience with the UI system, economic position (hourly wage/hours worked/earnings in previous job, industry, occupation, firm size, firm layoff rate), and geography.