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 …

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 …

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

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 …

This paper examines labor market conditions and public employment policies in the United States during what some are … and the introduction of new mechanisms to help Americans cope with job loss and protracted unemployment. The particular …

privatization and unemployment in postcommunist countries, showing that there is little support for the proposed mechanism by which …