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Do Government Sponsored Vocational Training Programs Help the Unemployed Find Jobs? Evidence from Russia

Nivorozhkin, Anton; Nivorozhkin, Eugene - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative to non-participants.

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The Adequacy of Unemployment Insurance Benefits

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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The Secular Rise in Unemployment Insurance Exhaustions and What Can Be Done about It

Smith, Ralph E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

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Unemployment Insurance and Low-Educated Single Working Mothers Before and After Welfare Reform

Shaefer, H. Luke; Wu, Liyun - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010

study examines changing levels of Unemployment Insurance (UI) eligibility and benefit receipt among working low … unemployment in the postreform period, even though single mothers have increased their relative rates of UI eligibility. Because of … unemployment increased in the years 2001–2005. As a result, the proportion of this population accessing benefits from one or more …

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Instrumental Variable Estimates of the Labor Market Spillover Effects of Welfare Reform

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

By increasing the labor supply of welfare recipients, welfare reform may reduce wages and increase unemployment among …

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A Frontline Decision Support System for Georgia Career Centers

Eberts, Randall W.; O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2002

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 emphasizes the integration and coordination of employment services. Central to achieving this aim is the federal requirement that local areas receiving WIA funding must establish one-stop centers, where providers of various employment services within a...

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Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Decker, Paul T.; Wandner, … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Partial Disability System and Labor Market Adjustment: The Case of Spain

Silva, Jose I.; Vall-Castello, Judit - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013

Although partially disabled individuals in Spain are allowed to combine the receipt of disability benefits with a job, the empirical evidence shows that employment rates for this group of individuals are very low. Therefore, in this paper we construct labor market model with search intensity and...

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Estimating a Performance Standards Adjustment Model for Workforce Programs that Provides Timely Feedback and Uses Data from Only One State

Bartik, Timothy J.; Eberts, Randall W.; Kline, Ken - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for adjusting performance standards for workforce programs offered by local workforce areas (LWAs). By performance standards adjustment, we mean a model that uses a statistical approach to attempt to better measure the relative performance...

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International Trade and Labor Markets: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Davidson, Carl; Matusz, Steven J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

workers whose labor-market experiences are punctuated by spells of involuntary unemployment. They demonstrate that such …

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