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Reconnecting To Work: Policies To Mitigate Long-Term Unemployment And Its Consequences, Lauren D. Appelbaum Editor
Reconnecting To Work: Policies To Mitigate Long-Term Unemployment And Its Consequences, Lauren D. Appelbaum Editor
Upjohn Press
The goal of this book is to enable a better understanding of the consequences of long-term unemployment and the policies that are needed to address it. The contributors present research that examines the psychological as well as economic consequences of experiencing a prolonged spell of joblessness. Included are discussions of policies to increase job creation and to get the long-term unemployed back into jobs.
Solving The Reemployment Puzzle: From Research To Policy, Stephen A. Wandner
Solving The Reemployment Puzzle: From Research To Policy, Stephen A. Wandner
Upjohn Press
Wandner examines the research and evaluation of U.S. employment and training programs over the past 25 years. He also discusses the impact such research can have and how misuse of research findings can hamper program effectiveness.
Unemployment Compensation Throughout The World: A Comparative Analysis, Wayne Vroman, Vera Brusentsev
Unemployment Compensation Throughout The World: A Comparative Analysis, Wayne Vroman, Vera Brusentsev
Upjohn Press
The authors book that contains a contemporary perspective and review of UC programs in numerous countries throughout the world.
International Trade And Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, And Policy Implications, Carl Davidson, Steven J. Matusz
International Trade And Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, And Policy Implications, Carl Davidson, Steven J. Matusz
Upjohn Press
Davidson and Matusz develop simple yet compelling models that allow for documented differences in labor markets across countries in order to investigate the impact of trade and trade policies on society's underclass.
Labor Standards In The United States And Canada, Richard N. Block, Ronald O. Clarke, Karen Roberts
Labor Standards In The United States And Canada, Richard N. Block, Ronald O. Clarke, Karen Roberts
Upjohn Press
Block, Roberts, and Clarke offer a method for comparing ten labor standards across political jurisdictions. They then apply this method to the United States and Canada, an exercise that allows them to settle the long-running dispute over whether or not Canada has higher standards than the U.S., and if so, to what degree.
Targeting Employment Services, Randall W. Eberts Editor, Christopher J. O'Leary Editor, Stephen A. Wandner Editor
Targeting Employment Services, Randall W. Eberts Editor, Christopher J. O'Leary Editor, Stephen A. Wandner Editor
Upjohn Press
This book offers a thorough overview of the U.S. experience with targeting reemployment services and self-employment assistance to UI beneficiaries most likely to exhaust benefits. The authors also suggest other programs that might benefit from targeting, examine Canadian efforts at targeting reemployment services, and consider prospects for a new Frontline Decision Support System for one-stop centers.
Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives On Worker Displacement, Peter Joseph Kuhn Editor
Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives On Worker Displacement, Peter Joseph Kuhn Editor
Upjohn Press
This volume presents a collaborative effort by 22 labor economists who examine worker displacement and the attempts to address it in 10 industrialized countries. Using large nationally-representative data sets and detailed policy analysis, the authors focus on two key questions related to worker displacement: 1) whether the experiences of displaced workers in the Untied States, and the patterns of experiences across workers, echo patterns seen in other developed countries, and 2) what can be learned, both from the similarities and from the differences across countries?
Reemployment Bonuses In The Unemployment Insurance System: Evidence From Three Field Experiments, Philip K. Robins Editor, Robert G. Spiegelman Editor
Reemployment Bonuses In The Unemployment Insurance System: Evidence From Three Field Experiments, Philip K. Robins Editor, Robert G. Spiegelman Editor
Upjohn Press
In this volume a select group of UI researchers describes the motivation for and the design, implementation, and impacts of UI bonus experiments administered in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington. They also describe the benefits and costs of the various experimental treatments for the government as a whole, the UI system in particular, claimants' earnings, and the overall net benefits to society.
Ensuring Health And Income Security For An Aging Workforce, Peter Budetti Editor, Richard V. Burkhauser Editor, Janice M. Gregory Editor, H. Allan Hunt Editor
Ensuring Health And Income Security For An Aging Workforce, Peter Budetti Editor, Richard V. Burkhauser Editor, Janice M. Gregory Editor, H. Allan Hunt Editor
Upjohn Press
The chapters explore implications of an aging workforce for a number of social programs in the coming decades, and point to the critical policy issues we must face when growing numbers of older workers begin to strain the capacity of those programs.
Topics In Unemployment Insurance Financing, Wayne Vroman
Topics In Unemployment Insurance Financing, Wayne Vroman
Upjohn Press
Vroman warns that states are more at risk for insolvency in the late 1990s than they were in 1990 and that a repetition of widespread and large-scale borrowing of the past is a distinct possibility. He bases this statement on an empirical study that examines historical levels of states' UI trust fund balances between recessions, and the specific methods used to finance trust fund blanaces. These methods include traditional means of financing, tax-base indexing, state reserve funds, and "flexible" financing such as solvency taxes and legislative response mechanisms. In addition, he addresses the tradeoffs of financing UI debt by either …
Unemployment Insurance In The United States: Analysis Of Policy Issues, Christopher J. O'Leary Editor, Stephen A. Wandner Editor
Unemployment Insurance In The United States: Analysis Of Policy Issues, Christopher J. O'Leary Editor, Stephen A. Wandner Editor
Upjohn Press
This book presents 15 original essays that reflect the state of knowledge on policy issues critical to the performance and success of the nation's UI system. The essays are based on program data, enabling the authors to provide analyses on and recommendations for issues at the forefront of the UI policy debate. Topics include coverage, eligibility, adequacy and duration of benefits, labor market attachment, benefit financing, fraud and abuse, the intersection of UI with other income maintenance programs, federal-state relations (including devolution), and more.
Permanent Job Loss And The U.S. System Of Financing Unemployment Insurance, Frank P.R. Brechling, Louise Laurence
Permanent Job Loss And The U.S. System Of Financing Unemployment Insurance, Frank P.R. Brechling, Louise Laurence
Upjohn Press
The authors reexamine the experience rating provisions in the U.S. UI system and look at its effects on both temporary layoffs and long-term permanent layoffs. For temporary layoffs, they propose a higher degree of experience rating through a restructuring of the tax code while eliminating administrative time lags between the payment of benefits and the resulting changes in taxes. Brechling and Laurence also propose experience rating as an effective means of internalizing the costs of the growing number of permanent layoffs, making the case that payroll taxes are not the ideal means of implementing experience rating in this situation. In …
Unemployment Insurance In The United States: The First Half Century, Saul J. Blaustein, Wilbur J. Cohen, William Haber
Unemployment Insurance In The United States: The First Half Century, Saul J. Blaustein, Wilbur J. Cohen, William Haber
Upjohn Press
Blaustein offers the definitive summary of the U.S. unemployment insurance system. This is the first of a two-volume update of Haber and Murray's Unemployment Insurance in the American Economy.
Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Adequacy In The 1990'S, Wayne Vroman
Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund Adequacy In The 1990'S, Wayne Vroman
Upjohn Press
Vroman introduces a model-based approach to the study of UI financing. He creates simulations for several large states in order to examine a series of funding issues, and analyzes the performance of those state's systems. In addition, he presents the regional aspects of UI funding. Vroman concludes with a brief presentation of UI solvency prospects and a description of a possible federal role in enhancing UI fund solvency.
An Incentives Approach To Improving The Unemployment Compensation System, Paul L. Burgess, Jerry L. Kingston
An Incentives Approach To Improving The Unemployment Compensation System, Paul L. Burgess, Jerry L. Kingston
Upjohn Press
Overpayments may account for up to 15 percent of all payments made under the unemployment compensation system. Burgess and Kingston propose that this overpayment serves as a clue to the more serious problems residing in the system. The authors focus on the lack of incentives (or the existence of disincentives) for improvement within the UC program structure for all participants - claimants, employers, and state UC agencies. Other issues they explore include the excessive complexity of the system and the difficulty of effectively monitoring claimant compliance with eligibility criteria.
The Funding Crisis In State Unemployment Insurance, Wayne Vroman
The Funding Crisis In State Unemployment Insurance, Wayne Vroman
Upjohn Press
Documents UI funding problems and attempts by states to solve them.
Nonmonetary Eligibility In State Unemployment Insurance Programs: Law And Practice, Walter Corson, Alan M. Hershey, Stuart Kerachsky
Nonmonetary Eligibility In State Unemployment Insurance Programs: Law And Practice, Walter Corson, Alan M. Hershey, Stuart Kerachsky
Upjohn Press
Consists of an econometric analysis of UI denial rates and factors that influence these rates, and in-depth studies of six state UI systems that explore factors that are typically "unobservable" in most statistical analyses.
Federal-State Relations In Unemployment Insurance: A Balance Of Power, Murray Rubin
Federal-State Relations In Unemployment Insurance: A Balance Of Power, Murray Rubin
Upjohn Press
Examines the extent to which the federal-state balance of power has contributed to the success of America's UI system.
The Federal Supplemental Benefits Program: An Appraisal Of Emergency Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits, Walter Corson, Walter Nicholson
The Federal Supplemental Benefits Program: An Appraisal Of Emergency Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits, Walter Corson, Walter Nicholson
Upjohn Press
Examines emergency policies to extend UI benefits during recessionary periods.
Job And Income Security For Unemployed Workers: Some New Directions, Saul J. Blaustein
Job And Income Security For Unemployed Workers: Some New Directions, Saul J. Blaustein
Upjohn Press
Proposes a "Job Security System" that would restructure and integrate most of the existing public programs designed to aid the unemployed worker.
Minimum Level Of Unemployment And Public Policy, Frank Cook Pierson
Minimum Level Of Unemployment And Public Policy, Frank Cook Pierson
Upjohn Press
Examines the government's efforts to cope with permanent unemployment resulting from structural changes to the economy.
Unemployment Insurance And The Older American, Daniel S. Hamermesh
Unemployment Insurance And The Older American, Daniel S. Hamermesh
Upjohn Press
Explores the treatment of pensioners and pension income under unemployment insurance programs in the United States.