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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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Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at …
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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 … representative workers and firms to compare 28 states and contrast the results with those obtained from more conventional indicators …
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The Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1993, Public Law 103-152, require each state employment security agency to … implement a Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. WPRS systems are intended to identify unemployment … insurance beneficiaries who are most likely to exhaust their regular benefits, and refer them quickly to reemployment services …
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Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is … estimator which accounts for rationing in the labor market. The results are used to compute labor market constraint compensation …
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Social experiments conducted in Pennsylvania and Washington tested the effect of offering Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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of federal, state, and local partners. The programs considered include unemployment insurance, training, youth programs …
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, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were … secondary employment effects of between 0.31 and 0.83 additional workers hired per person given self-employment assistance …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …
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markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of … Poland to assess how representative the comparison groups are of the general population of registered unemployed workers. …
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average duration of unemployment of long-term UI claimants by nine weeks. This was for UI claimants who were unemployed for at …
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