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This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...
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Kleiner examines occupations that are at various stages of regulation to determine to what extent regulation has influenced the individuals in the occupations, consumers, and related occupational practitioners.
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Wasem examines the impacts and implications of the Employment Act of 1946 and discusses how provisions of the Act might be useful for today's policymakers.
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Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at …
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Comparisons among state unemployment insurance (UI) systems can be misleading. Frequently quoted indicators of benefit … unemployment experience, would fare in different states. The authors use a micro-simulation approach to model the experiences of …
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average duration of unemployment of long-term UI claimants by nine weeks. This was for UI claimants who were unemployed for at …
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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 … may prolong spells of unemployment. Evidence from a field experiment conducted in Illinois in 1984 suggested that offering …
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This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …
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of federal, state, and local partners. The programs considered include unemployment insurance, training, youth programs …
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