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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Unemployment Insurance"”.
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Essays in unemployment insurance
… essays that examine household responses to state unemployment insurance (UI) generosity across spells of unemployment, with a particular emphasis on the role of liquidity constraints. Enacted in 1986, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) provides limited portability of …
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Labor contracts, unemployment insurance, and efficiency
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1983.
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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN LABOR SEARCH MODEL AND MONEY DEMAND
Countries with unemployment insurance (UI) program can effectively conduct a labor market policy and observe the flow of unemployed-employed. But should we just hand UI over to anyone who has no job? Do individual response to the program in terms of their decision to work or to enjoy more leisure …
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Current Issues and Problems in Unemployment Insurance in the United States
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:04:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6305145.pdf: 16838484 bytes, checksum: 00915ed01cd0130c98232eda278f6e48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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Benefit recipiency rates under the federal/state unemployment insurance program : explaining and reversing decline
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Three Essays on the Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Employment, Benefit Takeup and Other Labor Market Outcomes
… consists of three chapters on the impact of unemployment insurance on employment, benefit takeup and other labor market outcomes. Chapter one studies the short run employment effect of unemployment insurance policies in the United States by examining how the variations in average benefits, …
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The Limits of Social Citizenship: Unemployment Insurance and the Reproduction of the South African Racial Capitalist State, 1937-2023
… I ask how the institutionalisation of unemployment insurance during the periods of segregation (1910-1947) and apartheid (1948-1994) continues to affect the racialization of social citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa. In other words, I ask how unemployment insurance legislation …
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Take cover: Incentivising wider social insurance participation in South Africa
This paper examines the gap in social insurance coverage in semi-formal enterprises, and explores options for incentivising participation by lower income workers in a comprehensive statutory social security scheme. A probit model is used to quantify current patterns of UIF and pension coverage. The …
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Essays on Labor Market Frictions and Institutions
The U.S. government makes unemployment insurance (UI) more generous during recessions. In this thesis I study the interaction between unemployment insurance policies and labor market dynamics in a macroeconomic context. The first chapter examines government commitment and its role in shaping the …
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Essays on Unemployment
… and self-collected data to understand how unemployment and the government insurance that covers it impact workers. I argue that unemployment insurance increases subsequent unemployment less than previously thought, and many earnings-relevant skills would likely hold steady during any …
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The Color of Marginalization: Painting the Picture of Race and Public Policy in American States
… three policies areas: felony voting policies, Unemployment Insurance (UI) and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). This study examines whether states with minority populations greater than the national average have public policies that are more restrictive than states with …
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The Impact Of Economic Policies On Household Financial And Labor Supply Behavior
… chapter, I document the differential impacts of unemployment insurance on unemployment duration for older and younger workers. I find that older workers tend to receive longer periods of unemployment insurance than younger workers during economic downturns. This is partly because older workers …
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Experience rating in Massachusetts
… with the idea before this country even had an unemployment insurance law. The plan was soon found to be unsuccessful by both countries, and it was dropped from the law in order to protect the benefit fund and to prevent some industries from paying outrageously high tax rates. The United States …
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Essays on optimal insurance design
… three chapters analyzing the optimal design of insurance contracts. I consider three relevant contexts that change the central trade-off between the provision of insurance and the provision of incentives. The first chapter analyzes the role of biased beliefs for the optimal design of static and …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… occupational choice to demonstrate that youth unemployment in Ghana increases in parental wealth, and to consider the consequences of such a relationship for wage inequality, educational attainment, and aggregate productivity. I argue that, in the absence of unemployment insurance, only workers …
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Severance pay - a right or a privilege?
… has been terminated; such protection may include unemployment insurance or other forms of social security, or severance allowance or other types of separation benefits paid for by the employer, or a combination of benefits, depending upon national laws or regulations, collective agreements and the …
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The Cassa Integrazione Guadagni, unemployment welfare and industrial conflict in post-war Italy, 1941-1987
This PhD thesis tracks the history of the Italian unemployment welfare during the second half of the twentieth century, offering an account of why the Italian system of social security never established a universal safety net against unemployment, choosing instead a social policy system targeted on …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… Autor, is on employment effects of pandemic unemployment insurance. In response to the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the fed eral government creased the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Program (FPUC), which expanded unemployment insurance benefits by $600 …
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Strategies of the unemployed: does moving allow the unemployed to get ahead?
… [SALDRU], 2013c). We find that in response to unemployment and almost no unemployment insurance, unemployed individuals look to parents, relatives and friends for economic support. In many cases the unemployed delay setting up their own households while others may move back to family households …
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Estimating Unemployed Entrants into the Labor Force
… experience, they are not eligible to receive unemployment compensation and therefore are not accounted for in the Unemployment Insurance system. According to the national Current Population Survey, unemployed entrants make up approximately 40 percent of the total unemployed. The estimation of …
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