This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof … average duration of unemployment of long-term UI claimants by nine weeks. This was for UI claimants who were unemployed for at …

political spectrum. This paper examines the development of employment policy in the twentieth century by viewing the interplay … of federal, state, and local partners. The programs considered include unemployment insurance, training, youth programs …, and the employment service. Some attention is also given to governmental policy that influences the geographic mobility of …

This paper examines how a metropolitan area's job growth affects its income distribution. The research uses annual … Current Population Survey data on the income distribution in different metropolitan areas from 1979 through 1988. Faster … metropolitan job growth increases real family income in the lowest income quintile by a significantly greater percentage than for …

Michigan: Unemployment Insurance (UI), which partially replaces lost earnings following loss of a job; Workers' Compensation …

programmatic changes under consideration. Who (what population groups) would gain income and how much? Who would be unaffected? Who … reviews a class of models that may be designated as retirement income policy models. The review is limited to existing models … of programs within the U.S. retirement income system. The paper presents a general discussion of the components of such …

drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the … perceptions. Adoption of pro-testing legislation increases black employment in the testing sector by 7–30 percent and relative … wages by 1.4–13.0 percent, with the largest shifts among low skilled black men. Results suggest that employers substitute …

determine impacts on employment, wages, and more. …