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Issue: 1995-4
Self-Employment Programs: A New Reemployment Strategy
DescriptionIn this report, we present the final impact estimates of the Washington and Massachusetts UI Self Employment Demonstrations. These final results largely reinforce the earlier preliminary findings and underscore the conclusion that SEA is a viable policy tool to promote the rapid reemployment of unemployed workers. The cumulative evidence form the preliminary and final evaluations suggests that …
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Issue: 1995-3
The Alternative Base Period in Unemployment Insurance: Final Report
DescriptionMonetary eligibility for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits depends on worker earnings during the base period, a twelve month interval that precedes filing the claim for benefits. While monetary eligibility requirements vary considerably from one state to the next, most use earnings during the earliest four calendar quarters of the five completed quarters immediately preceding the claim. To be …
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Issue: 1995-2
The New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Reemploymet Demonstration Project: Six Year Follow-Up and Summary Report
DescriptionReplaced by UIOP 96-2 … New Jersey … … Joshua Haimson … Mathematica …
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Issue: 1995-1
The Effects of Increasing the Federal Taxable Wage Base for Unemployment Insurance
DescriptionThe objective of this study was to examine the effects of increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Federal Taxable Wage Base. To accomplish this objective, universe wage record data were obtained from four States (Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, and Texas) for calendar years 1990 and 1991. The weighted average wage in these States in 1991 was very close (98.7 percent) to the weighted average …
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Issue: 1995
Voluntary Skill Standards and Certification
DescriptionSkill standards have been used by individual firms and industry for a number of years for a variety of purposes including the selection and promotion of individual employees. Professions have used skill standards as a way to define the common core of knowledge required to call one's self a doctor or lawyer. Today these concepts are moving into a broader arena. After many years of effort on the …
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Issue: 1995
Training and Employment Report of the Secretary of Labor: Covering the Period July 1991 - September 1992
DescriptionThis chapter of the 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 Year 1991 (July 1991 through June 1992) and Fiscal Year 1992 (October 1991 through September 1992). ETA is a Federal agency that oversees the Nation's major job training, employment, and …
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Issue: 1995
Evaluation Forum: Economic Competition, Restructuring and Worker Dislocation
DescriptionEvaluation Forum is a national journal for program professionals in related human service fields: basic education, vocational education, employment and training, welfare, labor market and labor force change, and economic development. The purpose of the journal is to stimulate interest in policy analysis, policy research and program evaluation as useful tools for policymaking, planning and the …
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Issue: 1995
Core Data Elements and Common Definitions from Employment and Training
DescriptionIn response to a legislative mandate contained in the 1992 amendments to the Job Training Partnership Act to "identify a core set of consistently defined data elements" for the major Federal employment and training programs, the Department of Labor undertook the Core Data Elements Project. It was joined in this effort by the Departments of Agriculture, Education, and Health and Human Services, …
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Issue: 1994-4
The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Service System: Legislation, Implementation Process and Research Findings
DescriptionThis report was prepared by the Office of Legislation and Actuarial Services, Unemployment Insurance Service, under the direction of Stephen A. Wandner. This paper contains: federal legislative on profiling; a variety of public releases by the U.S. Department of Labor to interpret the legislation, support and provide technical assistance to the States in their implementation of the legislative …
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Issue: 1994-3
Self-Employment as a Reemployment Option: Demonstration Results and National Legislation
DescriptionThe U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has been conducting a series of national demonstration projects exploring innovative ways of using unemployment insurance (UI) to assist unemployed workers in making the transition to new jobs. As part of this research effort, DOL sponsored two experimental demonstration projects that tested the viability of self-employment as a reemployment option for …