Despite the unusually strong labor market of the late 1990s, the labor market outcomes for UI recipients--particularly exhaustees--are surprisingly poor. Notes that recipients in 1998, when compared with their counterparts a decade earlier, were less likely to have a job two years after their...

This article quantifies in dollars, jobs, and economic value lost how excess growth in health care costs is adversely affecting economic performance of U.S. industries. Researchers analyzed data from 38 U.S. industries from 1987 to 2005 and determined that faster growth in health care costs had...

Despite the unusually strong labor market of the late 1990s, the labor market outcomes for UI recipients—particularly exhaustees—are surprisingly poor. Notes that recipients in 1998, when compared with their counterparts a decade earlier, were less likely to have a job two years...