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Why are unemployment insurance claims so low?
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Kline, Kenneth J.; Stengle, … - 2023
employment interacting with changes in UI program features set by individual states. Employment declines in manufacturing and …
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Predictive analytics supporting labor market success
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Orellana, Salomon; Doyle, Kevin; … - 2023
was developed by the Michigan Center for Data and Analytics in collaboration with the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment …
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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, Kenneth J. - 2014
During the Great Recession, both the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) program experienced dramatic increases in participation. Using Michigan program administrative data on all SNAP (2006-2011) recipients and all UI (2001-2010)...
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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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Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
Lee, David S.; Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J.; … - 2019
Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary "decomposition" approach that compares the...
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Are state unemployment insurance reserves sufficient for the next recession?
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Kline, Kenneth J. - 2016
Regular state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits are paid from state reserves held in unemployment trust fund accounts at the U.S. Treasury. Employers covered by the federal-state UI system make contributions to reserve accounts based on taxable wages. The federal government provides...
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Lessons from the American Federal-State unemployment insurance system for a European unemployment benefits system
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Barnow, Burt S. - 2016
The federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI) in the United States was established by the Social Security Act of 1935 during the Great Depression. Under the program, states provide temporary partial wage replacement to involuntarily unemployed workers with significant labor force...
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The employment service-unemployment insurance partnership: Origin, evolution, and revitalization
Balducchi, David E.; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017
This study traces the origin and evolution of the partnership between the employment service and unemployment insurance … barriers. We also discuss factors that caused changes in the employment service-unemployment insurance partnership over time … continuous decline in service availability. Reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of in-person employment services for …
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Evaluating public employment programs with field experiments: A survey of American evidence
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017
of UI. The new century has seen some related field experiments in employment policy, and reexamination of the earlier …
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