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Issue: 1992-7
An Analysis of Pooled Evidence From the Pennsylvania and Washington Reemployment Bonus Demonstrations
DescriptionThis publication completes a major research effort conducted over the past eight years to determine the effectiveness of providing incentives to unemployed workers to speed their return to work. This effort represent a portion of a larger research program conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor to determine effective methods of providing reemployment assistance and/or incentives to unemployed …
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Issue: 1992-6
The Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment Final Report
DescriptionThe principal objective of unemployment insurance (UI) is to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement during periods of involuntary unemployment. In performing this income maintenance function, UI has the potential of prolonging spells of unemployment. Indeed, leading economists began publishing research findings in the 1970s strongly suggesting that UI tends …
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Issue: 1992-5
Papers and Materials Presented at the Unemployment Insurance Expert System Colloqium, June 1991
DescriptionThis publication contains a compilation of papers delivered at the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Expert System Colloquim. The indisputable progression of UI expert systems research is characteristic of the Federal-State partnership. Experiments conducted by State employment security agencies and funded by the U.S. Department of Labor have conclusively demonstrated the manifold uses of expert …
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Issue: 1992-4
UI Research Exchange
DescriptionThe purpose of this analysis is to provide State agencies and others with an understanding of what coordination and linkage programs the individual States have implemented, what are the components of such systems, and how these components fit together as a system. … … U.S. Department of …
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Issue: 1992-3
Employer Layoff and Recall Practices
DescriptionThis report on employer layoff and recall practices is part of a continuing effort by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to explore the needs of dislocated workers, i.e., those who have been laid off from their jobs. It attempts to answer the questions, ?When workers are laid off, how many more are recalled, and, of those recalled, how many choose to return to the employer that laid …
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Issue: 1992-2
Self Employment Programs for Unemployed Workers
DescriptionThis paper brings together four papers dealing with self-employment for the unemployed. The first chapter presents an overview of microenterprise as an employment option; a review of the Western European experience with self-employment programs for the unemployed; the two U.S. self-employment demonstration projects; and policy analysis of this issue as a policy option in the United States. This …
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Issue: 1992-1
Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Demonstration Final Report
DescriptionThe Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides short-term income support to involuntarily unemployed individuals while they seek work. Historically, the UI program has used administrative work-search requirements and employment-service referrals to the Job Service (JS) to promote rapid reemployment. In recent years, however, considerable policy interest has been expressed in providing …
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Issue: 1992
Economic Change and the American Workforce
DescriptionThis report asserts that U.S. economic changes are significantly affecting the nation's workers and calls-for adoption of a new workforce-development agenda. The report is based on studies of economic forces in Colorado, Indiana, Mississippi, and Missouri (states considered broadly representative of the nation as a whole) and of public and private responses to these forces. It recommends creating …
Research MethodologyLiterature Review
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Issue: 1992
Training and Employment Report of the Secretary of Labor: Covering the Period July 1988 - September 1990
DescriptionThe annual Training and Employment Report of the Secretary of Labor describes the programs operated by the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) during Program Years 1988 and 1989 (July 1988 through June 1990) and Fiscal Year 1989 and 1990 (October 1988 through September 1990). … Frances Oliver … Michael Landini … William Sheehan … Oliver & …
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Issue: 1992
Profiling the Literacy Proficiencies of JTPA and ES/UI Populations: Final Report to the Department of Labor
DescriptionThis comprehensive literacy assessment --- dealing with prose, document. and quantitative tasks --- provides results that profile a national sample of nearly 20 million participants in the U.S. Department of Labor programs that target people who are unemployed and seeking work or those in search of better jobs. The programs comprise by far the largest component of Labor's Employment and Training …
PopulationAdult
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis