Research for Unemployment

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February 1, 1981
This brief paper reinforces an hypothesis that workers respond to incentives provided by partial unemployment insurance and suggests that these incentive effects are widespread.
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February 1, 1981

This paper discusses three ways that unemployment insurance is believed to effect the unemployment rate through its effect on the unemployed, on employers, and through its power as a countercyclical program.

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February 1, 1981
Using a simultaneous equations model of political climate and labor market conditions, this study shows that political liberalism may lead to decreased labor force participation and higher unemployment, particularly for women.
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February 1, 1981

This paper examines the effect which unemployment insurance has on the distribution of income in the United States.

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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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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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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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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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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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June 1, 1974
This study examines the existence and degree of racial discrimination by construction unions and contractors against Negroes. It compares employment patterns and pay incentives from the mid to late 1960's. Moreover, it empirically tests hypothesis concerning Negro employment and racial discrimination in the building trades, and finally, examines current efforts and programs to improve employment opportunities for Negroes in construction and to prognosticate future developments in this area.
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