Work Incentive Effects of Taxing Unemployment Benefits

1 March 1985

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Econometrica

Vol. 53 (2) , 295
https://doi.org/10.2307/1911237

Abstract

Before 1979, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were not treated as taxable income in the United States. Several economists criticized this policy on the grou...

Keywords

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
TAXING UNEMPLOYMENT
WORK INCENTIVE EFFECTS

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