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Unemployment Insurance, Stephen A. Woodbury
Unemployment Insurance, Stephen A. Woodbury
Upjohn Institute Working Papers
Unemployment insurance (UI) provides temporary income support to workers who have lost their jobs and are seeking reemployment. This paper reviews the origins of the federal-state UI system in the United States and outlines its principles and goals. It also describes the conditions for benefit eligibility, the benefits themselves, and their financing through the UI payroll tax. The UI system is complex and includes many interested parties, including employers, worker advocates, state UI administrators, and the federal government. These parties’ differing views have led to controversies over benefit eligibility, adequacy, and whether the states or federal government should bear primary …
Short-Time Compensation As A Tool To Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence On The U.S. Experience During The Recent Recession, Katharine G. Abraham, Susan N. Houseman
Short-Time Compensation As A Tool To Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence On The U.S. Experience During The Recent Recession, Katharine G. Abraham, Susan N. Houseman
Upjohn Institute Working Papers
During the recent recession only 17 states offered short-time compensation (STC)—pro-rated unemployment benefits for workers whose hours are reduced for economic reasons. New federal legislation will encourage the expansion of STC. Exploiting cross-state variation in STC, we present new evidence indicating that jobs saved during the recession as a consequence of STC could have been significant in manufacturing, but that the overall scale of the STC program was generally too small to have substantially mitigated aggregate job losses in the 17 states. Expansion of the program is necessary for STC to be an effective counter-cyclical tool in the future.
(Wp 2013-05) Future Implications Of Debt And Deleveraging In The United States Economy, Abdur Chowdhury, Patrick Brown
(Wp 2013-05) Future Implications Of Debt And Deleveraging In The United States Economy, Abdur Chowdhury, Patrick Brown
Economics Working Papers
This paper will take a broad based approach in analyzing the structure of the U.S. economy with a particular emphasis on the disruptive U.S. recession and financial crisis which began circa 2008. The role of the U.S. government and the implications high levels of fiscal debt have on the projected growth path of the U.S. economy will be the primary focus of the paper. The discussion will show that the U.S. has likely entered a new, much more difficult stage in its history of economic growth. The short to medium term growth potential of the U.S. economy has fallen below …
U.S. Employment Outlook For 2013, Randall W. Eberts
U.S. Employment Outlook For 2013, Randall W. Eberts
Periodical Articles
No abstract provided.
Part 1: It Could Have Been (Much) Worse, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University
Part 1: It Could Have Been (Much) Worse, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University
State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads
Sequestration, it turns out, did not damage our regional economy nearly as much as originally anticipated. Unfortunately, some daunting economic challenges still loom on the horizon.
2013-5 Reassessing The Thesis Of The Monetary History, David Laidler
2013-5 Reassessing The Thesis Of The Monetary History, David Laidler
Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers
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Til Recession Do Us Part: Booms, Busts, And Divorce In The United States, Abdur Chowdhury
Til Recession Do Us Part: Booms, Busts, And Divorce In The United States, Abdur Chowdhury
Economics Faculty Research and Publications
A general hypothesis regarding the impact of permanent income levels and business cycle fluctuations on divorce rate at the state level in the United States is analysed in this article. Based on the data for 45 states over the sample period of 1978–2009, it is shown that the higher the level of transitory income, the higher the incidence of divorce. In other words, divorce is pro-cyclical.
The Organization Of Banking And Supervision, Introduction And Overview, Clas Wihlborg
The Organization Of Banking And Supervision, Introduction And Overview, Clas Wihlborg
Business Faculty Articles and Research
"The focus of this Special Issue is on organizational reforms in the financial sector in the aftermath of the financial crisis 2007-2009 and the subsequent euro-zone crisis. In particular, the perception that many banks were too big and too complex to fail during the crisis, which led to very costly bailouts at tax-payers expense in several countries, has fueled a number of proposals to limit the size and the complexity of financial institutions, as well as proposals to reorganize public authorities responsible for supervision and crisis management."