's modeling of health insurance coverage under a tax credit and examining the sensitivity of the results to changes in the model … family for private health insurance would reduce the number of uninsured individuals by between 17.5 and 28 percent and … effects of health insurance tax credits and suggest that progress on the issue of tax credits for health insurance will …

This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof …

.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the … unobserved firm characteristics affecting the average level and trend growth of wages. These controls have little effect on the …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … job losses from privatization, and they never imply large negative effects on wages; only for domestic privatization in …

By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among … that welfare reform has significant spillover effects: welfare reform reduces employment of male high school dropouts, and … reduces wages of single mothers and male high school dropouts. …

Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at …

Comparisons among state unemployment insurance (UI) systems can be misleading. Frequently quoted indicators of benefit …

Unemployment insurance is intended to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement … during periods of involuntary unemployment. However, in performing this income maintenance function, unemployment insurance … unemployment insurance claimants a modest cash bonus for rapid reemployment would increase the speed of return to work and reduce …

and whites. This note points out that the link between spatial mismatch and commuting times may be weak when employment … probabilities decline as the distance from job site to residence increases. A simple spatial model of urban employment is developed … employment probabilities decline with distance. …