The link between unemployment and pension accumulations is conceptually straightforward; periods of unemployment lead … of the timing and frequency of unemployment spells. We hypothesize that unemployment is more likely during periods in … generated unemployment spells for men and women across the earnings distribution. We find lower income workers suffer greater …

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of …

of federal, state, and local partners. The programs considered include unemployment insurance, training, youth programs …

The Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1993, Public Law 103-152, require each state employment security agency to … implement a Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. WPRS systems are intended to identify unemployment …

Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is …

) impacts of a 10-percentage point increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) replacement rate on the expected duration of … unemployment; and (b) impacts of adding 1 week to the potential duration of UI benefits on the expected duration of unemployment … duration of unemployment by .3 to 1.1 week (a range consistent with, but only somewhat narrower than, the existing range of …

prices, are affected by overall MSA unemployment, the distribution of unemployment among different groups, and national … prices and wages. MSA unemployment has strong effects on MSA wages and prices, but the distribution of unemployment among … different groups has weak effects on wages and prices. Using these estimates, simulations show that targeting high-unemployment …

, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …

to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …