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Recent Developments in the Theory of Involuntary Unemployment

Davidson, Carl - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

since 1960: search, disequilibrium, implicit contracts, efficiency wage, and insider/outsider models. …

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Unemployment Insurance and Low-Educated Single Working Mothers Before and After Welfare Reform

Shaefer, H. Luke; Wu, Liyun - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a nationally representative, longitudinal survey, this study examines changing levels of Unemployment Insurance (UI) eligibility and benefit receipt among working low-educated single mothers, 1990–2005. It also examines changing...

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Benefit Payment Costs of Unemployment Insurance Modernization: Estimates Based on Kentucky Administrative Data

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 provided financial incentives for UI modernization. The financial incentive is the state share of $7 billion available nationwide. States can receive one-third of their allocation by having an alternate base period (ABP) for monetary...

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The Secular Rise in Unemployment Insurance Exhaustions and What Can Be Done about It

Smith, Ralph E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011

search for work. The evaluations reviewed in this paper point the way to policies and programs that can meet that challenge …. In particular, strengthening job search requirements and increasing job search assistance would address both goals; the … experiments conducted in the 1980s suggests that financial inducements for unemployed workers to search for work more intensively …

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Policies for Displaced Workers: An American Perspective

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009

American employment policy for displaced workers started in the Great Depression with programs for the employment service, unemployment insurance, work experience, and direct job creation. Assistance for workers displaced by foreign competition emerged in the 1960s along with formalized programs...

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Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy

Wandner, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book provides a detailed insider's view under the Clinton and Bush administrations of the process by which eight social science experiments influenced federal laws and policies to alleviate joblessness in the United States.

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Short-Time Compensation as a Tool to Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence on the U.S. Experience during the Recent Recession

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013

During the recent recession, workers were eligible for UI benefits only if they were laid off in most states. At the start of the recent recession only 17 states offered short-time compensation (STC)—pro-rated unemployment benefits for workers whose hours are temporarily reduced for economic...

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Economics, Economists, and Public Policy

Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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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

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Use of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program Benefits by Unemployment Insurance Applicants in Michigan during the Great Recession

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Kline, Ken - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014

During the Great Recession, both the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) program experienced dramatic increases in participation. Using Michigan program administrative data on all SNAP (2006-2011) recipients and all UI (2001-2010)...

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