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markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of … active labor programs (ALPs). Follow-up surveys of participants in retraining, public works, wage subsidies, self …-employment, and comparison groups were done in Hungary and Poland in early 1997. Preliminary analysis suggests positive net impacts …
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Many individuals are grappling with the issue of whether to provide workers with training that upgrades the workers' basic academic skills. The corollary questions that flow from this issue are how to provide the training, how much training should be provided, and who should pay for the...
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earnings in the Republic of Hungary during the early phase of post-Socialist economic restructuring. Since assignment to … programs resulted in groups with vastly dissimilar characteristics, impact estimates were computed using a variety of methods … unemployment, but it did not appear to be a cost effective means of getting people reemployed in non-subsidized jobs. PSE is …
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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 …
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revenue and control commerce among the states governed development of labor market policy in the United States. Labor market … of federal, state, and local partners. The programs considered include unemployment insurance, training, youth programs … labor. Intergovernmental relations in labor market policy have resulted in a system that performs a wide variety of …
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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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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 …
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estimator which accounts for rationing in the labor market. The results are used to compute labor market constraint compensation …Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is … uses an existing large data set, and an agnostic approach. Labor supply are equations are estimated on PSID data using an …
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brief background sketch of the labor market situation of older workers to examine issues of prime concern to older workers …Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI … the labor force. Many issues at the forefront of current UI policy debate are also issues of prime importance to those in …
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