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Targeting Welfare-To-Work Services Using Statistical Tools, Randall W. Eberts Oct 2001

Targeting Welfare-To-Work Services Using Statistical Tools, Randall W. Eberts

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Risk Sharing Through Social Security Retirement Income Systems: A Comparison Of Canada And The United States, John A. Turner Oct 2001

Risk Sharing Through Social Security Retirement Income Systems: A Comparison Of Canada And The United States, John A. Turner

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Unemployment Compensation And Older Workers, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner Jun 2001

Unemployment Compensation And Older Workers, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner

Conference Papers

No abstract provided.


The Incidence And Cost Of Wrongfully Denied Unemployment Benefits, Stephen A. Woodbury, Wayne Vroman Jun 2001

The Incidence And Cost Of Wrongfully Denied Unemployment Benefits, Stephen A. Woodbury, Wayne Vroman

Reports

Since 1987, the U.S. Department of Labor has performed random audits of Unemployment Insurance (UI) payments in order to estimate the extent of benefit payment errors—particularly overpayments. However, the accuracy of the process that determines benefit eligibility is not currently assessed. In particular, the extent to which eligible claimants for UI are wrongfully denied benefits is not known. This paper reports the results of the Denied Claims Accuracy (DCA) Pilot Project, a five-state pilot conducted by the Department of Labor during 1997–98, in which random samples of monetary, separation, and nonseparation denials were subjected to intensive field investigation in order …


Bonus Impacts On Receipt Of Unemployment Insurance, Paul T. Decker, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Woodbury Jan 2001

Bonus Impacts On Receipt Of Unemployment Insurance, Paul T. Decker, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Woodbury

Upjohn Press Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


Reemployment Bonuses In The Unemployment Insurance System: Evidence From Three Field Experiments, Philip K. Robins Editor, Robert G. Spiegelman Editor Jan 2001

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.


Pay At Risk: Compensation And Employment Risk In The United States And Canada, John A. Turner Editor Jan 2001

Pay At Risk: Compensation And Employment Risk In The United States And Canada, John A. Turner Editor

Upjohn Press

The contributors to this book investigate the compensation and employment risks for U.S. and Canadian workers. They examine both wage and nonwage aspects of compensation, and whether workers in the U.S. or Canada face more job-related risks. They also seek to identify trends in risk bearing and whether they differ by country.


Ensuring Health And Income Security For An Aging Workforce, Peter Budetti Editor, Richard V. Burkhauser Editor, Janice M. Gregory Editor, H. Allan Hunt Editor Jan 2001

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.


Elements Of A Service Referral Algorithm For A Frontline Decision Support System For Washington Workfirst, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Wei-Jang Huang Nov 2000

Elements Of A Service Referral Algorithm For A Frontline Decision Support System For Washington Workfirst, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Wei-Jang Huang

Reports

No abstract provided.


Denied Claims Accuracy Pilot Project: Follow-Up Report, Stephen A. Woodbury, Wayne Vroman Aug 2000

Denied Claims Accuracy Pilot Project: Follow-Up Report, Stephen A. Woodbury, Wayne Vroman

Reports

No abstract provided.


U.S. Unemployment Insurance: Progress And Prospects, Christopher J. O'Leary Jul 2000

U.S. Unemployment Insurance: Progress And Prospects, Christopher J. O'Leary

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Intergovernmental Relations In Employment Policy: The United States Experience, Christopher J. O'Leary, Robert A. Straits Feb 2000

Intergovernmental Relations In Employment Policy: The United States Experience, Christopher J. O'Leary, Robert A. Straits

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Policies to regulate and support labor markets in the United States have mainly been an initiative of the federal government. Historically, states and localities were reluctant to act independently to build up worker rights and protections for fear of competitively disadvantaging resident industries with added costs. Federal constitutional authority to raise revenue and control commerce among the states governed development of labor market policy in the United States. Labor market support initiatives usually have been forged in difficult economic times with contributions and compromise from the full political spectrum. This paper examines the development of employment policy in the twentieth …


Unemployment Compensation And Older Workers, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner Jan 2000

Unemployment Compensation And Older Workers, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI). UI provides temporary partial wage replacement to active job seekers who are involuntarily out of work. For older workers, UI is an important source of income security and a potential influence on work incentives. For many, the transition from full-time work in a career job to retirement is voluntary and orderly. For others, job displacement greatly disrupts plans. The transition often involves many intermediate steps. The chain of transitions may include full- or part-time work on another job which most often is not in …


Alternative Measures Of State Ui Systems, Christopher J. O'Leary, Robert Tannenwald, Wei-Jang Huang, Pei Zhu Jan 2000

Alternative Measures Of State Ui Systems, Christopher J. O'Leary, Robert Tannenwald, Wei-Jang Huang, Pei Zhu

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Comparisons among state unemployment insurance (UI) systems can be misleading. Frequently quoted indicators of benefit generosity, tax cost, and adherence to the experience-rating principle are influenced by the relative economic conditions of states. Such comparisons thereby obscure underlying structural differences in state UI systems. A business considering alternative states in which to locate a production facility should be cautious when interpreting UI information in an economic developer's marketing pitch. This paper offers alternative indicators based on how representative firms, with a well specified unemployment experience, would fare in different states. The authors use a micro-simulation approach to model the experiences …


"Targeting Employment Services" Conference, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner Apr 1999

"Targeting Employment Services" Conference, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


A Cross Country Evaluation Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary And Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary Dec 1998

A Cross Country Evaluation Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary And Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary

Reports

No abstract provided.


Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary, Christopher J. O'Leary Nov 1998

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Active Labor Programs In Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary Jun 1998

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Active Labor Programs In Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Profiling For Reemployment Bonus Offers, Christopher J. O'Leary Apr 1998

Profiling For Reemployment Bonus Offers, Christopher J. O'Leary

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Optimal Dole With Risk Aversion And Job Destruction, Carl Davidson, Stephen A. Woodbury Feb 1998

The Optimal Dole With Risk Aversion And Job Destruction, Carl Davidson, Stephen A. Woodbury

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper extends earlier research on optimal unemployment insurance (UI) by developing an equilibrium search model that encompasses simultaneously several theoretical and institutional features that have been treated one-by-one (or not at all) in previous discussions of optimal UI. In particular, the model we develop allows us to determine the optimal potential duration of UI benefits as well as the optimal UI benefit amount; assumes (realistically) that not all workers are eligible for UI benefits; allows examination of various degrees of risk aversion by workers; models labor demand so that the job destruction effects of UI are taken into account; …


Topics In Unemployment Insurance Financing, Wayne Vroman Jan 1998

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 …


The Use Of Profiling To Target Services In State Welfare-To-Work Programs: An Example Of Process And Implementation, Randall W. Eberts Oct 1997

The Use Of Profiling To Target Services In State Welfare-To-Work Programs: An Example Of Process And Implementation, Randall W. Eberts

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

The purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary information about the design of a pilot project to test the efficacy of profiling and referring welfare-to-work participants. Welfare reform requires welfare recipients, with few exceptions, to participate in work activities and ultimately become economically self-sufficient. Welfare recipients possess a wide variation in job readiness skills, ranging from those who are ready and able to work to those who face significant barriers to employment. The challenge of the local administrator of welfare-to-work programs is to target services to those who need them the most. Yet, most programs provide the same services …


Preliminary Evidence On Impacts Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary And Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary Oct 1997

Preliminary Evidence On Impacts Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary And Poland, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

To ease the hardship associated with worker dislocation and to maintain social stability during the transition to 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 for most ALPs and additive benefits from the use of the employment service in both countries. Strong evidence of nonrandom assignment to programs means that great care should be used in interpreting …


An Evaluation Of The Washington State Unemployment Insurance Earnings Deduction Experiment, Christopher J. O'Leary Sep 1997

An Evaluation Of The Washington State Unemployment Insurance Earnings Deduction Experiment, Christopher J. O'Leary

Reports

No abstract provided.


Unemployment Insurance Policy In New England: Background And Issues, Robert Tannenwald, Christopher J. O'Leary Apr 1997

Unemployment Insurance Policy In New England: Background And Issues, Robert Tannenwald, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at least once during the past 35 years. Under such circumstances, states are required by law to raise UI taxes to replenish their trust funds and to pay off their debts to the federal government. Since higher UI taxes increase employer costs, replenishment forces states into a trade-off between economic competitiveness and trust fund adequacy. Competitive pressures have raised questions about prevailing standards of adequacy and the speed at which they should be attained. Consequently, several states are contemplating tax reductions despite low reserves. …


A Process Analysis Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services (Wprs) System In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Apr 1997

A Process Analysis Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services (Wprs) System In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Reports

No abstract provided.


Unemployment Insurance In The United States: Analysis Of Policy Issues, Christopher J. O'Leary Editor, Stephen A. Wandner Editor Jan 1997

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.


Methods For Performance Based Management Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary: An Adjustment Methodology For Performance Indicators And A Proposal For Budget Allocation, Christopher J. O'Leary Nov 1996

Methods For Performance Based Management Of Active Labor Programs In Hungary: An Adjustment Methodology For Performance Indicators And A Proposal For Budget Allocation, Christopher J. O'Leary

Reports

No abstract provided.


Profiling Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Oct 1996

Profiling Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Planning Guidelines For Active Labor Programs In Hungary, Christopher J. O'Leary Oct 1996

Planning Guidelines For Active Labor Programs In Hungary, Christopher J. O'Leary

Reports

No abstract provided.