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Issue: 1998-5
Essays on Interstate Competition in the Unemployment Insurance System
DescriptionThis volume of the Occasional Paper series presents two studies of interstate competition in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system. Determining the extent of economic competition among states is an extremely difficult undertaking. The papers in this volume attempt to shed light on this topic and quantify the effects of some aspects of competitive behavior. Using yearly UI state administrative …
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Issue: 1998-3
Labor Market Changes and Unemployment Insurance Benefit Availability
DescriptionThis report examines the evolution of benefit availability in Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. The focus is regular UI, the program that pays up to 26 weeks of benefits to eligible individuals. A major objective of the report is to document changes in the U.S. labor market that may have adversely affected access to UI benefits. … Wayne Vroman … The Urban …
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Issue: 1998-1
Emergency Unemployment Compensation: The 1990's Experience
DescriptionThe federal-state Unemployment Insurance (UI) program offers assistance to workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. In all states, the level of cash benefits paid is based on previous wages earned, and the duration of benefits is limited, typically up to a maximum of 26 weeks. However, the federal government has extended the duration of benefits during every recession since …
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Issue: 1998
Employment and Training for America's Homeless: Final Report on the Job Training for the Homeless Demonstration Program
DescriptionThis final report of the homeless demonstration, covering the results of the demonstration from its inception in September 1988 through November 1995, had a two-fold purpose: to analyze the results of the Job Training for the Homeless Program (JTHDP); and, to draw out lessons learned from the demonstration that can help guide future efforts at providing comprehensive and cost-effective services …
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 1998
National Job Corps Study: Characteristics of Youths Served by Job Corps
DescriptionThis report describes the characteristics of eligible Job Corps applicants and compares their characteristics with those of the broader national population of disadvantaged youths. To be eligible for the program, Job Corps applicants must satisfy 11 specific criteria designed to ensure that the youths enrolled need and can benefit from additional education and training, come from debilitating …
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Issue: 1998
National Job Corps Study: Methodological Appendixes on Sample Implementation and Baseline Interviewing
DescriptionThis report discusses methodological issues related to the implementation of random assignment and baseline interviewing for the National Job Corps Study. The appendixes are intended to complement the National Job Corps Study reports entitled (1) "Report on Study Implementation," (2) "Characteristics of Youths Served by Job Corps," and (3) "Eligible Applicants' Perspectives on Job Corps Outreach …
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Issue: 1998
National Job Corps Study: Eligible Applicants
DescriptionThis report describes eligible Job Corps applicants' sources of information about Job Corps, their program expectations, and their experiences with the program's outreach and admissions (OA) system, which seeks to recruit and screen disadvantaged youths who can benefit from Job Corps. Baseline interview data are used for the analysis. The report provides information that will help Job Corps …
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Issue: 1998
Technical Assistance Guide: Providing Educational Services in the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program
DescriptionThis Guide is one product of an evaluation of the educational component of the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program which is funded by DOL and being conducted jointly by Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) and Brandeis University's Center for Human Resources. In keeping with DOL's guidelines, we define educational services-and therefore the focus of the evaluation-as consisting of …
PopulationYouth
Research MethodologyTechnical Assistance
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Issue: 1998
Training and Employment Report of the Secretary of Labor: Covering the Period July 1995 - September 1996
DescriptionThis edition of the annual Secretary of Labor's report on the activities of Employment and Training Administration (ETA) covers the period July 1993 through September 1995. The report begins with a message from the Secretary of Labor about the Department of Labor's workforce investment agenda for the 1990s. This is followed by Employment and Training Administration administered program …
Research MethodologyLiterature Review
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Issue: 1997-3
Evaluation of Short-Time Compensation Programs
DescriptionShort-time compensation (STC) is an option within the unemployment insurance system that allows employers to reduce the hours of workers, while permitting workers to receive compensation for their partial layoff. This report examines the operations of short-time compensation programs, and is based on research conducted by Berkeley Planning Associates and Mathematica Policy Research under contract …