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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 …
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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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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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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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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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