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October 2012

Unemployment Insurance participation by education and by race and ethnicity

Alix Gould-Werth, H. Luke Shaefer

Among unemployed workers, the less educated and racial and ethnic minorities are less likely than the highly educated and White non-Hispanics to apply for and to receive unemployment insurance benefits; those who are less educated are also far more likely to perceive themselves as ineligible for benefits for monetary reasons.

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