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Information, intermediaries, and international migration

Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa; Schaner, Simone; … - 2022

are consistent with an increase in the option value of search: with better ability to differentiate offer quality, workers … search longer, select higher-quality intermediaries, and ultimately have better migration experiences. …

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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare

O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015

In this paper I examine the rates at which adults in households recently receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded employment services. I also investigate the correlation...

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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? Evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data

Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access to UI. Although the expansion's aim is to smooth the income and consumption of previously ineligible workers, it is possible that UI benefits simply displace other sources of...

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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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Employment and training policy in the United States during the economic crisis

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Eberts, Randall W. - 2009

This paper examines labor market conditions and public employment policies in the United States during what some are calling the Great Recession. We document the dramatic labor market changes that rapidly unfolded when the rate of gross domestic product growth turned negative, from the end of...

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Benefit payment costs of unemployment insurance modernization: Estimates based on Kentucky administrative data

O'Leary, Christopher J. - 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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Do job search rules and reemployment services reduce insured unemployment?

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Wandner, Stephen A. - 2005

This paper summarizes state unemployment insurance job search policies based on a recent survey of states by the … these changes may have affected monitoring of claimant compliance with work search requirements. Since state policies on job … search and service referral can affect insured durations of unemployment, these policies can also affect the measured total …

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Unemployment insurance and low-educated single working mothers before and after welfare reform

Shaefer, H. Luke; Wu, Liyun - 2011

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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Policies for displaced workers: An american perspective

O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2010

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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The secular rise in unemployment insurance exhaustions and what can be done about it

Smith, Ralph E. - 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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