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Public Workforce Programs During The Great Recession, Stephen A. Wandner, Randall W. Eberts Jul 2014

Public Workforce Programs During The Great Recession, Stephen A. Wandner, Randall W. Eberts

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Financing Unemployment Insurance, Wayne Vroman, Stephen A. Woodbury Mar 2014

Financing Unemployment Insurance, Wayne Vroman, Stephen A. Woodbury

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Following the Great Recession, most states’ unemployment insurance (UI) trust funds became insolvent, requiring the states to borrow from the U.S. Treasury to finance benefit payments. This article describes the basics of UI financing and reviews the origins of the financial crisis facing the federal-state UI system. It then examines the main components of the UI payroll tax—the taxable wage base and the experience-rated payroll tax—and considers how these might be modified to avoid future widespread insolvency. We conclude with some speculative remarks on the future of UI financing.


State Ui Job Search Rules And Reemployment Services, Christopher J. O'Leary Jun 2006

State Ui Job Search Rules And Reemployment Services, Christopher J. O'Leary

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This article examines whether unemployment insurance (UI) requirements pertaining to job searches and UI mechanisms connecting claimants with reemployment services tend to shorten the duration of those claimants' insured unemployment. Evidence is presented from a 2003 National Association of State Workforce Agencies survey of all State UI programs. Also presented is evidence about the effect of State UI policies and reemployment assistance on the duration of insured unemployment. Although the sizes of the estimated impacts differ, the consistent finding is that both UI work search requirements and UI reemployment services tend to shorten claimants' duration of insured unemployment by speeding …


Saturn And State Economic Development, Timothy J. Bartik, Charles Becker, Steve Lake, John Bush Jan 1987

Saturn And State Economic Development, Timothy J. Bartik, Charles Becker, Steve Lake, John Bush

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