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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: The Role of Workforce Programs

Barnow, Burt S.; Hobbie, Richard A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book examines the nature of the workforce development and UI policy decisions made nationwide in response to the recession, state and local administrators’ perspectives on the policy developments and economic challenges, and implementation of key Recovery Act provisions, with a particular...

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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...

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Short-Time Compensation as a Tool to Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence on the U.S. Experience during the Recent Recession

Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013

During the recent recession, workers were eligible for UI benefits only if they were laid off in most states. At the start of the recent recession only 17 states offered short-time compensation (STC)—pro-rated unemployment benefits for workers whose hours are temporarily reduced for economic...

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A Note on Commutes and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis

DeRango, Kelly - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2000

A number of empirical studies have tested the spatial mismatch hypothesis by examining the commuting times of blacks and whites. This note points out that the link between spatial mismatch and commuting times may be weak when employment probabilities decline as the distance from job site to...

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Design of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services System and Evaluation in Michigan

Eberts, Randall W.; O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996

insurance beneficiaries who are most likely to exhaust their regular benefits, and refer them quickly to reemployment services …

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An Econometric Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Adequacy

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1990

Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is …

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Refundable Tax Credits for Health Insurance: The Sensitivity of Simulated Impacts to Assumed Behavior

Emmons, David W.; Madly, Eva; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005

's modeling of health insurance coverage under a tax credit and examining the sensitivity of the results to changes in the model … family for private health insurance would reduce the number of uninsured individuals by between 17.5 and 28 percent and … effects of health insurance tax credits and suggest that progress on the issue of tax credits for health insurance will …

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Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment: Implications of the Reemployment Bonus Experiments

Davidson, Carl; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996

) impacts of a 10-percentage point increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) replacement rate on the expected duration of …

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Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements

Thomason, Terry; Schmidle, Timothy P.; John F. Burton Jr. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Thomason, Schmidle, and Burton make use of a unique data set to delve into how insurance arrangements affect several … insurance pricing arrangements by performing empirical analyses that use state-specific cost, benefit, and injury data from 48 … adequacy of benefits, affordability of WC insurance, efficiency in the benefits delivery system, and prevention of workplace …

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The Economics of natural and Unnatural Disasters

Kern, William (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book presents a group of notable scholars who examine the relationship between globalization and poverty from a number of diverse perspectives.

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