"Who supports young workers through job loss and social crisis?" - Dr. Meta Brown

Economists estimate that a minority of eligible US workers claim unemployment insurance in the event of job loss, and that this follows a decades-long decline in UI claiming (Lachowska et al. 2022, O’Leary et al. 2023). This paper uses administrative data from Ohio’s state unemployment insurance system, matched to Experian credit reports, to compare the UI reliance of younger, middle aged, and older workers following job loss.