The impact of unemployment insurance on job creation

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Maria Inês Baptista Ramos da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/155639
• topic: Unemployment subsidies; Unemployment insurance; Total amount of ui; Subsidies maximum amount; Subsidies maximum duration; Companies number of employees; Employment; Unemployment; Job creation; Us; Great recession; Covid-19; Employee turnover rate.; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Unemployment insurances are perceived as major benefits to support workers in their job findings. This thesis contributes to the pre-existent literature through researching the impact of the unemployment benefits on the companies’ hirings and permanent layoffs, due to a lack of research on this matter. Using state and firm-specific variables, this study analyses the absolute and percentage impact on number of companies’ employees. For two of the overall performed regression models, higher amounts of unemployment insurances seem to impact positively the number of companies’ employees.