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Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is …
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Social experiments conducted in Pennsylvania and Washington tested the effect of offering Unemployment Insurance (UI …) claimants a cash bonus for rapid reemployment. This paper combines data from the two experiments and uses a consistent framework … to evaluate the experiments and determine with greater certainty the extent to which a reemployment bonus can affect …
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Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at …
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A number of empirical studies have tested the spatial mismatch hypothesis by examining the commuting times of blacks and whites. This note points out that the link between spatial mismatch and commuting times may be weak when employment probabilities decline as the distance from job site to...
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Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI …
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Comparisons among state unemployment insurance (UI) systems can be misleading. Frequently quoted indicators of benefit … unemployment experience, would fare in different states. The authors use a micro-simulation approach to model the experiences of …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary information about the design of a pilot project to test the efficacy of profiling and referring welfare-to-work participants. Welfare reform requires welfare recipients, with few exceptions, to participate in work activities and ultimately...
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markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of …
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probably would have gained reemployment without government assistance. However, even after accounting for sample selection …, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …
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