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- U.S. Department of Labor Announces $63 Million to Strengthen State Unemployment Compensation Systems
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor today announced grants totaling $63 million to strengthen state unemployment compensation systems. Strong economic performance and lower-than- expected unemployment insurance UI claimWASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor today announced grants totaling $63 million...
- Research articles 2005-09-30
- Poster Compliance Center Advises Alaska Employers of Change in Mandatory Workplace Posting; Alaska Department of Labor Issues Revised Unemployment Insurance Notice
- JUNEAU, Alaska -- The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development has revised a mandatory workplace notice that notifies employees about their coverage under the Unemployment Insurance program administered by the Employment Security Division.
- Research articles 2006-01-10
- For the Record.(Brief Article)
- FMLA CHANGE OPPOSED The Society for Human Resource Management and two other organizations are suing the U.S. Department of Labor to stop implementation of a new federal regulation that would allow states to use unemployment insurance funds to pay emp FMLA CHANGE OPPOSED The Society for...
- Research articles 2000-07-10
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Economics Trifecta: Leading Indicators and Unemployment Look Up
- Unlike the conflicting signals we have seen for so long in the economic news, June 18 gave us three clear positive signs on important statistics. First, The Conference Board's release of the Index of Leading Economic Indicators LEI jumped to 54.9, up from about 40 in April. (The normal, baseline...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
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- Briefly.(Briefs)(Department of Transportation and the Department of Defense gives grant to Lawrence Technological University)(Detroit Free Press and Detroit News delays the launch of new edition)(seminar on unemployment insurance )
- State offers free seminars on SUTA dumping laws The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency is offering free employer seminars on 2005 laws designed to crack down on State Unemployment Tax Act, or SUTA, "dumping.'' The laws include provisions State offers free seminars on...
- Research articles 2006-01-30
- Labor Department Announces $8 Billion Transfer To State Unemployment Insurance Benefit Accounts
- WASHINGTON, March 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the transfer of $8 billion to state Unemployment Insurance trust funds from excess funds in the federal unemployment accounts. WASHINGTON, March 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the transfer of...
- Research articles 2002-03-14
- Accenture to Modernize New Jersey's Unemployment Insurance Claims System; Program Aims to Provide Easier, Faster Access to Unemployment Benefit Claims
- TRENTON, N.J. -- The State of New Jersey has selected Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to develop and implement the New Jersey State Unemployment Compensation Claimant and Employer Service System NJ SUCCESS, designed to modernize the delivery and administration of unemployment insurance benefits throughout the state.
- Research articles 2005-11-07
- State unemployment insurance system gets $603G.
- The Connecticut Department of Labor has received a $603,269 grant from the federal government to upgrade its unemployment insurance system to better serve out-of-work individuals and businesses that are part of the system. "Our goal is to mak The Connecticut Department of Labor...
- Research articles 2004-10-04
- Labor Department Awards States $18.6 Million to Continue Unemployment Insurance System Improvements
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration ETA today awarded $18.6 million to 37 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands for unemployment insurance system improvements. TheWASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration...
- Research articles 2004-09-15
- U.S. Department of Labor to Provide 26 States Nearly $8.8 Million in Unemployment Insurance Information Technology Security Grants
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -b The U.S. Department of Labor today announced grants to 26 states and the Virgin Islands totaling $8,797,186 to enhance unemployment insurance UI information technology security. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -b The U.S. Department of Labor today announced grants to 26 states and the...
- Research articles 2006-09-14
- Washington's Unemployment Insurance Increases 5.2 Percent.(Originated from The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.)
- TACOMA, Wash.--Jul. 4--Washington state residents collecting unemployment insurance will get a raise of up to 5.2 percent next week. TACOMA, Wash.--Jul. 4--Washington state residents collecting unemployment insurance will get a raise of up to 5.2 percent next week.
- Research articles 1997-07-06
- Re-employment bonuses in the unemployment insurance system: Evidence from three field experiments. (Recent Books).(Book Review) (book review)
- Robins, Philip K.; Spiegelman, Robert G. (eds.). Re-employment bonuses in the unemployment insurance system: Evidence from three field experiments. Kalamazoo, MI, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001. xii + 295 pp. Figures, tables, gl Robins, Philip K.; Spiegelman, Robert G. (eds.). Re-employment bonuses...
- Research articles 2002-09-22
- Unemployment insurance in the United States and Europe, 1973 -83
- Beatrice G. Reubens, formerly a senior research associate at the Conservation of Human Resources, Columbia University, is an international economic consultant. In general, comparisons show rising costs, changes in eligibility and benefits, possible disincentives to work, and low replacement ratios for the unemployed; some industrial countries have...
- Research articles 1989-04-01
- Jobless benefits on family leave? Not here.(Michigan may not allow use of unemployment insurance for family leave)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- LANSING - Beginning today, workers throughout the country could become eligible for unemployment benefits if they take time off to care for newly born or adopted children. But in Michigan, that's not likely. The Engler administration opposes the new U.S. Department of...
- Research articles 2000-08-07
- Wisconsin Governor Argues for Extension of Unemployment Insurance Benefits.
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 10--MADISON, Wis.--Deciding that laid-off Wisconsin workers can wait no longer for federal action, Gov. Scott McCallum said Wednesday that the state should take steps to extend unemployment insurance benefits. McCallum urged...
- Research articles 2002-01-10
- Unemployment Insurance Integrity to Be Focus of April 15-16 Conference in Norfolk, Virginia
- NORFOLK, Va., April 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Labor Department's Employment & Training Administration will co-sponsor a conference with the National Association of State Workforce Agencies NASWA focusing on ways to prevent, detect and recover overpayments in state unemployment insurance programs. Hosted by the Virginia Employment Commission, the second...
- Research articles 2003-04-15
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