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- Unemployment Insurance Under Moral Hazard and Limited Commitment: Public Versus Private Provision
- This paper analyses a model of private unemployment insurance under limited commitment and a model of public unemployment insurance subject to moral hazard in an economy with a continuum of agents and an infinite time horizon. The dynamic and steady-state properties of the optimum private unemployment insurance scheme are established....
- White papers 2004-04-28
- How Should Unemployment Benefits Respond to the Business Cycle?
- This paper discusses the nature of responses in an optimal unemployment insurance UI program. Unemployment insurance programs balance the benefits of consumption smoothing for unemployed workers against the disincentive effects of unemployment benefits. A simple extension of benefits, exists automatically in the system in the United States, provides both poorer...
- White papers 2003-01-02
- A Positive Theory of Geographic Mobility and Social Insurance
- This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance UI, taking the dynamic distortionary effects of insurance on the performance of the labor market into consideration. Agents with higher cost...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- The Right Stimulus Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits or Tax Cuts?
- Extending unemployment insurance coverage has become a crucial ingredient in the typical response of U.S. fiscal policy to adverse economic conditions. This paper constructs and quantifies a stochastic general equilibrium search model, with incomplete unemployment insurance, to examine the economic consequences of extending unemployment benefits during recessions. Moreover, it also...
- White papers 2002-08-01
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- Health-care fault line in rural counties
- MANSFIELD, Pa. - Rural Tioga County sprawls across more than 1,100 square miles along the New York border in the north-central section of Pennsylvania. Like many other depressed areas, it suffers from high unemployment, low income and high rates of chronic disease. But it has far fewer employers than do...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- Dunn Corporate Resources Offers Unemployment Compensation Rate Relief for Small Businesses
- Dunn Corporate Resources, Inc., a nationwideprovider of unemployment compensationclaims management for middle market businesses, announced this week a Recession Relief program for small businesses with 20 to 150 employees. CEO Jim Dunn said, "Our service enables employers to save money. Byproactively reviewing State UnemploymentInsurance SUI ...
- Articles 2008-06-16
- One in the eye for PPI: the cover that is out of credit
- LENDING As payment protection insurance is slammed by the competition watchdog, Kate Hughes asks if anyone should be buying these policies Payment protection insurance PPI, condemned by consumer groups as a "rip-off", is set for a shake-up. Customers are being overcharged by a massive...
- Articles 2008-06-08
- Two hundred-plus people blocked traffic in six spots in New York City to protest the acquittal of the detectives who shot Sean Bell, and were briefly arrested
- Two hundred-plus people blocked traffic in six spots in New York City to protest the acquittal of the detectives who shot Sean Bell, and were briefly arrested. "If they're not going to arrest the guilty," declared a spokesman for Al Sharpton's National Action Network, "they'll have to arrest the innocent."...
- Articles 2008-06-02
- N.O.-area unemployment numbers increase over week
- New Orleans area saw an increase in initial unemployment claims for the week ending May 17 to 604 from 489 the week before. The area, comprised of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John and St. Tammany parishes, posted the highest number of...
- Articles 2008-05-23
- Change to Win Hails Bill to Stop Wage Theft Due to Misclassification
- WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Change to Win executive director Greg Tarpinian on the introduction today of federal legislation to prevent the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. "Change to Win applauds the introduction of the Employee Misclassification Prevention Act of...
- Articles 2008-05-22
- State Unemployment Insurance Programs Adopt QuickAddress Software for Address Verification
- QAS, a part of Experian ® (LSE: EXPN)specializing in customer data qualitysoftware and services, announced today that the Alabama Department ofIndustrial Relations and Colorado Unemployment Insurance UI Program haveselected QAS address verification products to increase efficiency andimprove client service. Colorado and Alabama join a growing list of state...
- Articles 2008-05-12
- Protecting the Jobless
- Lengthening the coverage period for unemployment insurance from 26 to 39 weeks is common sense--but will it get bogged down in partisan politics? It’s an election year, and partisan acrimony has escalated. Democrats and Republicans portray themselves as the nation’s saviors and protectors against all the programmatic atrocities...
- Articles 2008-05-12
- Up for Debate This Week: War Spending, the Farm Bill, and Flood Insurance
- WASHINGTON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- This is the WashingtonWatch.com federal legislative update for the week of May 12, 2008. This week, the House will consider a spending bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The precise bill is not known yet, but it is likely also...
- Articles 2008-05-12
- Appellate Division, 3rd Department Case Summaries: May 2, 2008
- Appellate Division, 3rd Department Unemployment Misconduct -- Insubordination Mills v. Miteq, Inc. 503392 Appealed from the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board Background: The claimant appeals from a decision of...
- Articles 2008-05-02
- U.S. Unemployment Having Impact on Kids' Health Care Coverage - and That Puts Their Health at Risk
- Studies Demonstrate That Children Have Unmet Health Needs When Parents Lose Insurance CINCINNATI, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Two new studies conducted by researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center point to the negative impact of parental job loss on children's healthcare and the importance of having continuous...
- Articles 2008-04-30
- Volunteer Legal Services Project in N.Y. announces Knight Award
- The Volunteer Legal Services Project VLSP has announced this year's McKnight Award winners, who will be recognized at the Law Day luncheon on Thursday, May 1. The honorees are Christopher D. Lindquist, Nicole A. Rossow and John Witmeyer, three attorneys who have made significant pro bono contributions...
- Articles 2008-04-28
- ALGERIA: THOUSANDS OF WORKERS HAVE NO SOCIAL INSURANCE.
- According to Al-Khabar newspaper (April 23, 2008), Mr. Zemali, Chairman of the Algerian CACOBATPH Insurance Fund of paid rest days, and unemployment caused by bad weather conditions for construction, irrigation, and public works sectors, announced that more than 70,000 workers were employed without social insurance in...
- Articles 2008-04-24
- Letter: Many are deserving
- Many are deserving I read the front page article April 10 about the Genstler Eye Center performing free cataract surgery on a nurse with a nice income and good insurance. We're supposed to think the center did such a great thing. We would be...
- Articles 2008-04-20
- Letter: Many are deserving
- Many are deserving I read the front page article April 10 about the Genstler Eye Center performing free cataract surgery on a nurse with a nice income and good insurance. We're supposed to think the center did such a great thing. We would be...
- Articles 2008-04-20
- The Conference Board® U.S. Business Cycle Indicators
- U.S. Leading Economic Indicators and Related Composite Indexes for March 2008 NEW YORK, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board announced today that U.S.leading index increased 0.1 percent, the coincident index increased 0.1 percent, and the lagging index increased 0.3 percent in March. ...
- Articles 2008-04-17
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