Extended Benefits Didn't Keep Unemployed From Taking Jobs: Study [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Extended unemployment benefits Congress put in place at the outset of the Great Recession didn't discourage people from taking jobs, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Princeton University economics professor Henry Farber and San Francisco Fed economist Rob Valletta found that extended benefits might have encouraged people to continue to look for work longer so that they could remain eligible for benefits. While the longer searches for jobs could have boosted the unemployment rate by four-tenths of a percentage point, the compensation didn't make the long-term jobless unwilling to work.
"It did not reduce the job finding rate," Farber told HuffPost. He added the benefits probably helped the economy, however, not to mention the individual people who otherwise might have had no income. "These are people who spend the money you give them."
The findings are similar to 2011 research by Jesse Rothstein of the University of California, Berkeley.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/extended-benefits_n_3230961.html
Yet another GOP talking point lie debunked.
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