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A Spoonful of Sugar: Privatization and Popular Support for Reform in the Czech Republic
Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott G. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements
Thomason, Terry; Schmidle, Timothy P.; John F. Burton Jr. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Thomason, Schmidle, and Burton make use of a unique data set to delve into how insurance arrangements affect several … insurance pricing arrangements by performing empirical analyses that use state-specific cost, benefit, and injury data from 48 … adequacy of benefits, affordability of WC insurance, efficiency in the benefits delivery system, and prevention of workplace …
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The Economics of natural and Unnatural Disasters
Kern, William (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This book presents a group of notable scholars who examine the relationship between globalization and poverty from a number of diverse perspectives.
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The Economics of Risk
Meyer, Donald J. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
enterprises, agricultural markets, auctions, and health insurance. …
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Unemployment Insurance Policy in New England: Background and Issues
Tannenwald, Robert; O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1997
Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141944
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Alternative Measures of State UI Systems
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Tannenwald, Robert; Huang, Wei-Jang - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000
Comparisons among state unemployment insurance (UI) systems can be misleading. Frequently quoted indicators of benefit …
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Congressional Testimony on the Effectiveness oof the Employment Service in Aiding UI Claimants
Jacobson, Louis S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1991
This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof. Arnold Katz of the University of Pittsburgh using data on over 100,000 individuals who registered with the Pennsylvania ES between 1978 and 1987, and an even larger sample of...
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The Displacement Effect of Reemployment Bonus Programs
Davidson, Carl; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1990
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Reemployment Incentives for Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries: Results from the Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Spiegelman, Robert G.; Kline, … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993
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 …
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A Note on Commutes and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
DeRango, Kelly - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000
A number of empirical studies have tested the spatial mismatch hypothesis by examining the commuting times of blacks 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...
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