Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Applications for positions
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Job Search of Recipients of Unemployment Insurance
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Applications for positions
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
The Tolls of Uncertainty
Author: Sarah DamaskePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691219311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for work Through the intimate stories of those seeking work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the nation’s unemployment system—who it helps, who it hurts, and what, if anything, we can do to make it fair. Drawing on interviews with one hundred men and women who have lost jobs across Pennsylvania, Sarah Damaske examines the ways unemployment shapes families, finances, health, and the job hunt. Damaske demonstrates that commonly held views of unemployment are either incomplete or just plain wrong. Shaped by a person’s gender and class, unemployment generates new inequalities that cast uncertainties on the search for work and on life chances beyond the world of work, threatening opportunity in America. Following in depth the lives of four individuals over the course of their unemployment experiences, Damaske offers insights into how the unemployed perceive their relationship to work. She reveals the high levels of blame that women who have lost jobs place on themselves, leading them to put their families’ needs above their own, sacrifice their health, and take on more tasks inside the home. This “guilt gap” illustrates how unemployment all too often exacerbates existing differences between men and women. Class privilege, too, gives some an advantage, while leaving others at the mercy of an underfunded unemployment system. Middle-class men are generally able to create the time and space to search for good work, but many others are bogged down by the challenges of poverty-level unemployment benefits and family pressures and fall further behind. Timely and engaging, The Tolls of Uncertainty posits that a new path must be taken if the nation’s unemployed are to find real relief.
How the Government Measures Unemployment
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Extended Unemployment Compensation Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment CompensationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Promoting Employment and Maintaining Incomes with Unemployment Insurance
Author: Bruce VavrichekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income maintenance programs
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Job Search and Reemployment Services for the Unemployed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Unemployment Insurance Occasional Paper
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unemployment insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Unemployment Insurance Research
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Unemployment Insurance Reform
Author: David E. BalducchiPublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880996528
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is a lasting piece of the Social Security Act which was enacted in 1935. But like most things that are over 80 years old, it occasionally needs maintenance to keep it operating smoothly while keeping up with the changing demands placed upon it. However, the UI system has been ignored by policymakers for decades and, say the authors, it is broken, out of date, and badly in need of repair. Stephen A. Wandner pulls together a group of UI researchers, each with decades of experience, who describe the weaknesses in the current system and propose policy reforms that they say would modernize the system and prepare us for the next recession.
Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Author: Andreas PollakPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161493041
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Designing a good unemployment insurance scheme is a delicate matter. In a system with no or little insurance, households may be subject to a high income risk, whereas excessively generous unemployment insurance systems are known to lead to high unemployment rates and are costly both from a fiscal perspective and for society as a whole. Andreas Pollak investigates what an optimal unemployment insurance system would look like, i.e. a system that constitutes the best possible compromise between income security and incentives to work. Using theoretical economic models and complex numerical simulations, he studies the effects of benefit levels and payment durations on unemployment and welfare. As the models allow for considerable heterogeneity of households, including a history-dependent labor productivity, it is possible to analyze how certain policies affect individuals in a specific age, wealth or skill group. The most important aspect of an unemployment insurance system turns out to be the benefits paid to the long-term unemployed. If this parameter is chosen too high, a large number of households may get caught in a long spell of unemployment with little chance of finding work again. Based on the predictions in these models, the so-called "Hartz IV" labor market reform recently adopted in Germany should have highly favorable effects on the unemployment rates and welfare in the long run.