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The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market
Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2005
We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. Displacement rates in the Ukrainian labor market average between 3.4 and 4.8 percent of employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288017
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Do Job Search Rules and Reemployment Services Reduce Insured Unemployment?
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Wandner, Stephen A. - 2010
This paper summarizes state unemployment insurance job search policies based on a recent survey of states by the … durations of insured unemployment. The paper documents how state administrative practices have changed and questions whether … search and service referral can affect insured durations of unemployment, these policies can also affect the measured total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063176
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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses
Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2017
panel data from Washington State assembled from 2002-2014 administrative wage and unemployment insurance (UI) records. Three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059530
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Policies for Displaced Workers : An American Perspective
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2010
service, unemployment insurance, work experience, and direct job creation. Assistance for workers displaced by foreign … of unemployment compensation recipients to reemployment services, skill training closely connected to employer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135903
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Use of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program Benefits by Unemployment Insurance Applicants in Michigan during the Great Recession
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Kline, Ken - 2015
-state unemployment insurance (UI) program experienced dramatic increases in participation. Using Michigan program administrative data on … eligibility requirements. Unemployment insurance applicants with insufficient wage credits or job separations because of quitting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148237
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A Frontline Decision Support System for Georgia Career Centers
Eberts, Randall W.; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 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/10011763247
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The secular rise in unemployment insurance exhaustions and what can be done about it
Smith, Ralph E. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288034
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The Secular Rise in Unemployment Insurance Exhaustions and What Can Be Done About It
Smith, Ralph - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042259
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Do government sponsored vocational training programs help the unemployed find jobs?
Nivorozhkin, Anton; Nivorozhkin, Eugene - 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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287997
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Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
Card, David - 2015
institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029780