Potential Duration Of Unemployment Benefits And The Duration Of Joblessness, Stephen A. Woodbury

Conference Papers

Federal Supplemental Compensation (FSC) was the program that temporarily extended the duration of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits by 8 to 14 weeks during 1982-1984. This paper examines whether and to what degree the extension of benefits under FSC increased the expected length of UI recipients' jobless spells. The estimates are derived from a large Ul-administrative data base that spans the expiration of FSC and allows one to observe whether and (approximately) when a worker actually returned to work. Previous studies of the effects of extended benefits have had to make assumptions about UI recipients' return to work that appear to …

Preliminary Report On A Comparative Analysis Of The Underlying Dimensions Of Unemployment Among Blacks, Hispanics, And Whites In Boston, Jeremiah Cotton

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

There are four major objectives of this research. The first objective is to determine whether and to what extent differences in unemployment rates in Boston among black, Hispanic, and white workers are due to the following: (1) the differences in the percentage of individuals in each group who experience a spell of unemployment at one time or another during the year, that is the incidence of unemployment; or (2) the differences in the average number of spells of unemployment during the year, that is the frequency of unemployment; or (3) the differences in the average length of time a spell …

Youth Employment And Unemployment: Outreach Initiatives In Massachusetts And The City Of Boston, James E. Blackwell, William J. Stracqualursi, Zaki A. Sakin

William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications

An effort is made here to identify trends in the labor market participation of teenagers, especially in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the City of Boston; to specify unemployment trends in terms of the racial identification of teenagers or youth, with a special focus on the 14-19 year old cohort; to describe the types of jobs held by teenagers and make an assessment of the long-term implications of types of employment for future employability; to specify the most frequently identified issues* delineated when attempting to address the problem of youth unemployment; to permit young employed people to speak about …

Poverty Amid Renewed Affluence: The Poor Of New England At Mid-Decade, Andrew M. Sum, Paul E. Harrington, William B. Goedicke, Robert Vinson

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article examines the problem of poverty in New England during the current period of economic prosperity. Major trends in the size and composition of the poor population within the region are analyzed. Striking changes in the relative incidence of poverty have occurred among families in New England. As the economy has moved toward full employment, poverty rates among husband-wife families in the region have fallen sharply. In contrast, female-headed families in New England have not benefited substantially from recent rapid increases in employment opportunities. The result has been a persistent trend toward the feminization of poverty in New England. …

Ua21 Wku Affirmative Action Plan Volume Vii, Wku Office Of Equal Opportunity / 504 / Ada Compliance

WKU Administration Documents

This volume contains the Report to the President for 1985-86, and the workforce analyses, availability rates, goals and timetables for the 1986-87 academic year by department units. The goals and timetables include the ultimate goals for 1987, the last year of the five-year plan.

Formulation Of The Comprehensive Employment And Training Act Of 1973, Gary G. Skalangya

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis was intended to delineate the factors contributing to the formulation of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) of 1973--a unique attempt at overhauling federal employment and training policy as well as one of the early efforts at devolving control over grants-in-aid to the subnational level.

Information was obtained from the literature on this policy area, plus documentary sources; such as records of Congressional hearings. From this information, an analytical framework was developed, in which factors contributing to the formulation were classified as; contextual, ideological and those in the form of actors' objectives.

It was found that CETA …

Union Organizing And Public Policy: Failure To Secure First Contracts, William N. Cooke

Upjohn Press

Investigates factors that explain why 25-30 percent of the time unions fail to obtain collective bargaining agreements after winning the right to negotiate.

The Implicit Assumptions Of Labor Law Scholarship—Making Sense Of The Last Fifty Secondary Boycott Decisions, Or How I Spent My Summer Vacations, James B. Atleson

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Statement [For] Distribution And Economics Of Employer Provided Fringe Benefits: Hearings Before The Subcommittee On Social Security And Subcommittee On Select Revenue Measures Of The Committee On Ways And Means, House Of Representatives, Stephen A. Woodbury

Testimonies

No abstract provided.

Hearing On Fair Reduction-In-Force (Rif) Practice Act Of 1984 (H.R. 6080) Before The U.S. House Of Representatives Committee On Post Office And Civil Service Subcommittee On Human Resources: Testimony, Wayne R. Wendling

Testimonies

No abstract provided.

The Plant Closure Policy Dilemma: Labor, Law And Bargaining, Wayne R. Wendling

Upjohn Press

Examines the role of collective bargaining in plant closings.

Worker Participation And American Unions: Threat Or Opportunity, Thomas A. Kochan, Harry Charles Katz, Nancy R. Mower

Upjohn Press

A comprehensive analysis of the effects of QWL and other forms of worker participation on the collective bargaining process.

Union-Management Cooperation: Structure, Process, Impact, Michael H. Schuster

Upjohn Press

Presents the findings of a five-year study of the structure, process and impact of six forms of union-management programs aimed at improving productivity.

Labor Relations In Maine 1971-1982, Bureau Of Labor Standards

Maine Collection

Labor Relations in Maine 1971-1982

Prepared by the Bureau of Labor Standards, Research & Statistics Division,

William A. Peabody, Director, April, 1983.

Contents: Authorization / Introduction / Narratives / Tables / Appendices

The Origins Of The Occupational Safety And Health Act Of 1970, Patrick G. Donnelly

Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work Faculty Publications

This paper analyzes the emergence of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and finds previous explanations of its origin inadequate. I trace the roots of this law to the protests of rank-and-file workers across the United States at a time when the support of these workers was particularly important to the two main political parties. The protest was directed not only at those employers who operated unsafe and unhealthy workplaces, but also at union officials who paid little or no attention to safety and health issues in negotiating new contracts.

Labor-Management Cooperation: The American Experience, Irving Herbert Siegel, Edgar Weinberg

Upjohn Press

Examines a variety of cooperative arrangements and the resulting problems and successes.

The Modernization Of Labor And Labor Law In The Arab Gulf States, Enid Hill

Faculty Books

The paper examins the topic of the modernization of labor and of labor law in the Arabian Gulf states .

Affirmative Action Programs In Social Service Agencies: Status Of The Female M.S.W., Geraldine Ann Berg

Dissertations and Theses

Job status and salary inequities between men and women have only recently been documented. The federal government, over the past few decades, through various acts and executive orders, has created legislation to prohibit discrimination based on race, sex, color, religion or national origin in all employment practices. The question is to what extent this legislation has permeated social service agencies and affected their employment patterns, particularly with respect to administrative positions.

In 1976, the Women's Issues Committee of the Oregon Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), addressed this question by initiating a study of social work employment …

Veterans In Maine - A Report, Maine Department Of Manpower Affairs - Manpower Research Division

Maine Collection

Veterans in Maine : A Report.

"Labor Market Information Publication" Maine Department of Manpower Affairs, Employment Security, Manpower Research Division, 20 Union Street, Augusta, Maine 04330.

December 1978

The Unemployment Rate: Time To Give It A Rest?, Stewart J. Schwab, John J. Seater

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The most overworked figure in our society may be the unemployment rate. Newscasters, politicians, and economists use it in discussing everything from the overall health of the economy to the merits of alternative welfare programs. Despite its widespread use, however, the unemployment rate frequently is criticized for not indicating the true state of the economy’s health or of society’s welfare.

If the unemployment rate falls to 4 percent, for example, some economists will argue that it’s too low and that, even though the rate is greater than zero, the economy is overemployed. Others will argue that unemployment has not fallen …

Workers' Health And Safety: Whose Costs, Whose Benefits?, Joseph A. Page

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Health and safety on the job remain sources of bitter controversy in the public forums. Businessmen rail against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for its "dictatorial" enforcement of "oppressive" regulations, leading President Ford in early 1976 to demonstrate sympathy for their concerns. Labor leaders deplore the failure of industry and government to stem the toll of death and disablement from work-related disease. Members of' Congress, responsive to pressures from constituents, fill pages of the Congressional Record with reports of both employer vexations and employee tragedies.

Like ships passing in the night, advocates on both sides tend to regard …

Politics, Patronage And Public Employment, Robert M. O'Neil

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Equal Rights Amendment As An Instrument For Social Change, Lynn Andretta Fishel, Clarine Nardi Riddle

IUSTITIA

"The Equal Rights Amendment: Will it do so little, we don't need it -or so much, we shouldn't have it?"

The paradox stems from the arguments of the groups who oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). On one hand, they claim that the 14th Amendment and Title V1II provide all the tools women need, so the ERA won't be able to accomplish anything uniquely significant. On the other hand they contend, with even greater fervor, that the ERA will be so powerful it will destroy the fabric of society. The paradox is not altogether ludicrous, however, when it is recognized …

On Reanalyzing The Harris-Todaro Model: Policy Rankings In The Case Of Sector-Specific Sticky Wages, T.N. Srinivasan, Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Faculty Scholarship

In a brilliant and pioneering paper, John Harris and Michael Todaro introduced a model with two sectors, manufacturing (urban) and agriculture (rural), a (sticky) minimum wage in manufacturing and consequent unemployment. They also introduced a labor allocation mechanism under which, instead of the usual equalization of actual wages, the actual rural wage was equated with the expected urban wage; the latter was defined as the (sticky) minimum wage weighted by the rate of employment, so that, unlike in the standard rigid-wage models of trade theory (for example, Gottfried Haberler, Bhagwati, Harry Johnson, Louis Lefeber, and Richard Brecher), the unemployment resulting …

Strategies For Change: Migrant Workers In Indiana, Louis Rosenberg

IUSTITIA

There are enormous problems which beset migrant workers throughout America. In an effort to come to grips with conditions of the downtrodden in Indiana a symposium was held recently on the campus of Indiana University which dealt with possible mechanisms for changing the inhuman plight of the farm worker. Wages, housing, and working conditions are major areas which account for the debased and squalid situation of the worker.

Exploitation Of Migrants By Crew Leaders: A Proposal For Change, Roberta Getman

IUSTITIA

The agricultural industry, because of seasonal nature of crops, is unique in its use of labor. The required labor force fluctuates not only from year to year but from week to week, and day to day. Not as many laborers are required to weed and cultivate as are needed to plant and harvest. Inclement weather reduces the need for workers. The grower in Indiana needs an efficient means for ensuring a supply of labor for each season. Each spring between fifteen and twenty thousand Mexican- Americans come to Indiana to plant, cultivate, and harvest its crops. Traditionally, the work force …

The Application Of Legal And Business Policies To State Prison Industries, Daniel Pramuk, Gregory Robinson, William Rotzien

IUSTITIA

The Prison Industries (P.I.) division of the Indiana State Department of Correction presented the challenge of a business function that must be carried out to achieve policy goals established by the legislature. The legal constraints imposed upon P.I. present barriers unique to the regular business community, and yet, analysis of conventional business planning provides a starting point for an analysis of P.l's plan and its implementation, and provides a guide for posing alternative plans. The Pendleton Reformatory was chosen for observation of P.I. in operation and its relation to the prison as an institution.

Book Reviews, O. Kahn-Freund, Saul Medlovitz, Charles D. Kelso, J. Francis Paschal, Thomas A. Cowan, Lowell Turrentine, Richard S. Sullivan, G. Robert Ellegaard, Richard Arens, Ilmar Tammelo, J. Myron Jacobstein, Paul O. Proehl

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Ralph F. Fuchs, Thomas Christy Chapin, Schuyler W. Jackson, John A. Bauman, Kenneth S. Carlston, Laurens H. Rhinelander, Mortimer M. Caplin, Clifford C. Alloway, Charles H. Livengood Jr., Albert R. Beisel Jr.

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

What Is The I.L.D.?, Kaarte-Edlund Branch

Ina and Noel Harris Collection

Article explaining the origin, recent history and current goals of the International Labor Defense. Details their local history in Northern California and their aid to striking lumber workers amongst other efforts.

Issued by: KAARTE-EDLUND BRANCH, International Labor Defense

Box 988, Eureka, Calif