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THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TAX AND LABOR TURNOVER, FURTHER EMPIRICAL RESULTS
January 1, 1980
The research reported here is an extension of a previous enquiry by Brechling and Jehn into the relationships between labor turnover and the unemployment insurance tax. First, the data base was extended through 1977, and the original models were re-estimated. The original and enlarged data sets yielded similar conclusions. Second, the influence of the taxable wage base of the social security tax upon labor turnover was examined. This taxable wage base seems to have a different impact from that of the taxable wage base of the unemployment insurance tax. Third, the relationships between the seasonal pattern of labor turnover and the unemployment insurance tax were examined. The results tended to be weak. Viewed as a whole, the results of the new investigation are not as strong as the original ones, but they do support the conclusion that there are significant relationships between labor turnover and the parameters of the unemployment insurance tax.
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LAYOFFS AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
March 1, 1979
This paper examines the relationship between layoffs and the unemployment insurance systems utilizing an extended Baily-Feldstein model of unemployment insurance and layoffs.
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ARIZONA EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT DATA CODE BOOK
September 1, 1978
The Arizona Employment and Unemployment Data Code Book describes a public use data set developed by PRI from Arizona Unemployment Insurance (UI) administration records and Social Security Administration's Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data (LEED). The UI data is a 20 percent sample drawn from the Arizona Continuous Wage and Benefit History (CBWH) sample. This data base contains detailed longitudinal histories of both the employment and unemployment experience of workers who claimed UI benefits in Arizona between 1963 and 1971. In total, about 40,000 workers are in the file. Employment information includes earnings and principal industry for each year. Unemployment information includes the data and amount of each UI payment, and the date of all administrative actions, such as disqualifications. Age, race, and sex are included as well.
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PENNSYLVANIA CONTINUOUS WAGE AND BENEFIT HISTORY CODEBOOK
September 1, 1978
The Pennsylvania Continuous Wage and Benefit History (PA-CWBH) Code Book describes a public use data set developed by PRI from Pennsylvania Unemployment Insurance (UI) administration records. These data cover 4,000 claimants (0.6 percent of the covered population). Information about claims activity, such as the number and amount of UI payments, in 1966, 1967, and 1968 and information about employment, such as annual earnings and principal industry in 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970, are included in the data.
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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on the Duration of Unemployment and Subsequent Earnings
September 1, 1977

This paper presents empirical estimates of the effects of the level of weekly benefit payments on the duration of unemployment and on the monetary returns of the jobs accepted by unemployment insurance recipients from Pennsylvania and Arizona in the late 1960s.

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Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Labor Turnover, Summary of Theoretical Findings
September 1, 1977

This paper summarizes the findings of an extensive theoretical study designed to discover the incentive effects on individual firms of the unemployment insurance tax as it is currently operated in most states.

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Effects of Unemployment Insurance Entitlement on Duration and Job Search Outcome
September 1, 1977

This study uses data drawn from Unemployment Insurance (UI) systems in five different states to examine how variations in UI benefit levels, maximum weeks of eligibility, and work-test enforcement affect the duration of compensated unemployment and the outcome of job search.

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A Model of Unemployment Insurance and the Work Test
September 1, 1977

This paper estimates a model for various demographic groups using Office of Labor Statistics methods. It then develops a simultaneous equation model that examines the unemployment insurance system as the product of the state laws and policies used to administer it. Both the single-equation and simultaneous-equation estimates tend to support the hypothesis that the ease of passing the work test accounts for the adverse effect of the unemployment insurance system on unemployment.

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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND THE LENGTH OF UNEMPLOYMENT
January 1, 1977
This paper presents evidence that Unemployment Insurance (UI) does prolong the duration of unemployment for covered workers. Although this is only one of several channels through which UI could affect the unemployment rate, this evidence lends considerable weight to the argument that the effects of UI should be considered when the unemployment rate is used to judge the health of the economy or as an input in determining the appropriate stance of fiscal and monetary policy.
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