[...]This paper examines the recent recession, with particularattention given to developments in the labor market and in UI program financing. Its three objectives are to describedevelopments in the macroeconomy and in the labor marketthat have relevance for UI funding issues, to present...

[...]This paper examines some of the potential consequences ofGLB for the structure of the U.S. financial services industry. Init, we ask how the industry may evolve as this new legislationinteracts with the consolidation trend already under way, whattypes of mergers are most likely to occur,...

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which drew heavily on Sherraden’sasset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts forlow-income families in the City. This paper presents the “income to...