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Firms and unemployment insurance take-up
Lachowska, Marta; Sorkin, Isaace; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2022
We use administrative data to quantify the firm role in unemployment insurance (UI) take-up. First, there are firm effects in both claiming and appeals, and, consistent with deterrence effects, these are negatively correlated. Second, low-wage workers are less likely to claim and more likely to...
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Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the CARES Act on earnings and inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020
that the decline in aggregate earnings was entirely driven by declines in employment; individuals who remained employed did …
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Retiree health benefits and retirement
Marton, James; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2006
Employer-provided health benefit coverage for workers who retire before age 65 has fallen over the last decade. We examine a cohort of male workers from the Health and Retirement Survey to examine questions about the dynamics of retiree health benefits and the relationship between retiree health...
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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
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 … employment services whether they receive UI benefits or not, while only 14 percent of newly jobless TANF leavers who do not apply …
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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
, which may decrease with UI benefits. In this paper, we estimate the impact of UI eligibility on employment, means …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418275
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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses
Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2017
We estimate the earnings losses of a cohort of workers displaced during the Great Recession and decompose those long-term losses into components attributable to fewer work hours and to reduced hourly wage rates. We also examine the extent to which the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of...
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Four decades of declining federal leadership in the federal-state unemployment insurance program
Wandner, Stephen A. - 2019
The unemployment insurance (UI) program was established in 1935. Unlike other social insurance programs created by the Social Security Act, it was established as a federal-state program. The federal government initially acted as a strong partner working with state agencies that operate the UI...
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Heterogeneous impacts on layoffs of changes in Brazilian unemployment insurance eligibility rules
Cravo, Túlio; O'Leary, Christopher J.; Sierra, Ana Cristina - 2020
This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program to assess the impact of changes in UI eligibility criteria on layoff probabilities. We exploit exogenous program changes introduced by executive and legislative changes in 2015...
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An illustrated case for unemployment insurance reform
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Wandner, Stephen A. - 2020
We present a graphic case for unemployment insurance (UI) program reform. Through a series of illustrations summarizing historical trends, we show how the UI system has diverged from its intended purposes. Our figures show the decline of the program in addressing its essential aims of paying...
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State unemployment insurance reserves are not adequate
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Kline, Kenneth J. - 2020
Regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits are paid from reserves held in state accounts at the U.S. Treasury. The Great Recession exhausted the majority of UI reserve accounts, and not all states have rebuilt reserves. We examine the adequacy of current state and systemwide UI reserves to...
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