Author: Terrence Charles HalpinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment stabilization
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Three Essays on the Effect of Experience Rating in Unemployment Insurance
Author: Terrence Charles HalpinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment stabilization
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Experience Rating in Unemployment Insurance
Author: Joseph M. BeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Study of unemployment benefit financing in the USA, with particular reference to the allocation of costs among employers through a payroll tax based on experience rating - evaluates this system by examining its success in promoting employment security, its economic implications, management attitude and participation in administrative aspects, solvency of the fund, etc. References and statistical tables.
Three Essays on the Labor Force and Income/earnings Distributional Impacts of Unemployment-insurance Benefits
Author: Margaret McGirt CapenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unemployment insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Unemployment Insurance Policies and Employment
Author: Cristian A. Maravi MenesesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"This dissertation consists of three essays concerning the way in which the unemployment insurance (UI) system in the United States affects the dynamics of labor markets, through the financing and the provision of unemployment benefits. The first chapter provides background on the financing of the UI system. In the U.S. unemployment benefits are financed with employer payroll taxes using experience rating methods, which consist of assigning a tax rate based on the firm's history of unemployed workers who collected unemployment benefits. This creates a cost to the firm when changing employment downward: the expected UI marginal tax cost (EMTC). However, these methods are imperfect in that not every additional separation increases UI taxes (there are minimum and maximum tax rates). I implement a novel empirical measure of the EMTC assuming firms have rational expectations. I find that, on average, firms expect to pay about 56% of the additional unemployment benefit, with the remaining subsidized. This subsidy has potential implications for the dynamics of labor markets, which I explore in subsequent chapters. The second chapter studies the effect of increasing unemployment benefits on employment under an imperfect experience rating UI system. An endogeneity problem arises because both subsidized and total unemployment benefits respond endogenously to employment shocks. Thus, I construct instruments to overcome endogeneity by interacting systematic differences across states with aggregate shocks. I find that subsidized unemployment benefits reduced employment during the Great Recession. Also, using job flows data, I show that subsidized unemployment benefits have a positive effect on job separations, consistent with the negative effect on employment, while having little effect on job creations. The last chapter studies the effect of unemployment subsidies on the composition of unemployment by UI claims. I show that unemployment subsidies increase the incidence of insured unemployment, but reduce that of uninsured unemployment. While the first result is predicted by the existing theory, the second is not. I rationalize this result by proposing a relabeling hypothesis: firms profitably split the non-negative subsidy with workers by relabeling the job separation as UI eligible. The relabeling hypothesis suggests that if the UI subsidy is high, workers receiving benefits should better resemble the characteristics of workers separating via quits. I in fact see evidence of this hypothesis in terms of the impact of the UI subsidy on unemployment duration, recall rate, and wage growth of separated workers"--Pages vi-vii.
Experience rating in unemployment insurance: virtue or vice
Author: Joseph M. BeckerThree Essays on Unemployment and Unemployment Insurance
Author: Phillip B. LevineThe Case for Experience Rating in Unemployment Compensation and a Proposed Method
Author: Herman FeldmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Experience Rating in Unemployment Insurance, History, Methods and Operation
Author: Gordon S. SkinnerExperience Rating in Unemployment Compensation
Author: Clinton SpiveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Effect on Firms of Experience Rating Under the United States Unemployment Insurance System
Author: Erik SabotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description