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 …

panel data from Washington State assembled from 2002-2014 administrative wage and unemployment insurance (UI) records. Three …

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 …

The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The …

average between 3.4 and 4.8 percent of employment, roughly in line with levels typically observed in several Western economies … West, in so far as displacement is concentrated on the less skilled. Around one third of displaced workers find re-employment … immediately while the majority continues into long-term non-employment. The wage costs of displacement for the sub-sample of …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded … employment services. I also investigate the correlation of UI and employment services receipt with maintenance of self … employment services are used by one-quarter of newly jobless TANF leavers. Among UI applicants, more than 75 percent use public …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …, which may decrease with UI benefits. In this paper, we estimate the impact of UI eligibility on employment, means …

This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …

outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their …I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … results emphasize the intergenerational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment. …