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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
Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …
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The Adequacy of Unemployment Insurance Benefits
O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010586154
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Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs? Evidence from Russia
Nivorozhkin, Anton; Nivorozhkin, Eugene - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005
The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative to non-participants.
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Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Decker, Paul T.; Wandner, … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611762
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Partial Disability System and Labor Market Adjustment: The Case of Spain
Silva, Jose I.; Vall-Castello, Judit - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013
Although partially disabled individuals in Spain are allowed to combine the receipt of disability benefits with a job, the empirical evidence shows that employment rates for this group of individuals are very low. Therefore, in this paper we construct labor market model with search intensity and...
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A Frontline Decision Support System for Georgia Career Centers
Eberts, Randall W.; O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 emphasizes the integration and coordination of employment services. Central to achieving this aim is the federal requirement that local areas receiving WIA funding must establish one-stop centers, where providers of various employment services within a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101991
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Estimating a Performance Standards Adjustment Model for Workforce Programs that Provides Timely Feedback and Uses Data from Only One State
Bartik, Timothy J.; Eberts, Randall W.; Kline, Ken - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for adjusting performance standards for workforce programs offered by local workforce areas (LWAs). By performance standards adjustment, we mean a model that uses a statistical approach to attempt to better measure the relative performance...
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Including Jobs in Benefit-Cost Analysis
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011
. In labor markets with high unemployment, such employment changes may have significant net efficiency benefits, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391451
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Predictors of Employment Growth and Unemployment in U.S. Central Cities, 1990-2010
Wolf-Powers, Laura - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013
This paper considers employment growth and unemployment from 1990-2010 in a cross-section of cities in light of … unemployment rates in 83 central cities in the United States. Change in educational attainment over time is suggestive of causing … higher job growth and lower unemployment. The implication is that initiatives to attract and retain college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670842
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Employment and Training Policy in the United States during the Economic Crisis
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Eberts, Randall W. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
and the introduction of new mechanisms to help Americans cope with job loss and protracted unemployment. The particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478799