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Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and “At-Fault” Job Loss: Implications for Recipiency, Unemployment Duration, and Earnings
No full textUnemployment insurance (UI) benefits are available only to claimants who are not “at-fault” for their job loss. In the US, states define separation-based eligibility criteria that are used by caseworkers to determine eligibility among claimants who quit or were fired. We study the implications of these eligibility criteria using administrative data from California. First, we provide a uniquely comprehensive assessment of the number and characteristics of affected claimants. Second, exploiting quasi-random assignment of claims to groups of caseworkers and idiosyncratic variation across caseworkers in their tendency to deem a claimant ineligible, we estimate the causal effect of denial on unemployment duration and reemployment earnings. Our work will inform policymakers of the effects of altering separation-based eligibility criteria
How State Governments Can Target Job Opportunities to Distressed Places
Get PDFThe United States has two types of “place-based” jobs problems: low employment rates in 1) local labor markets and 2) neighborhoods. The local labor market problem can be dealt with by targeting distressed local labor markets for job creation. The neighborhood problem can be dealt with by targeting distressed neighborhoods with programs to improve residents’ job access. This report describes the magnitude of these place-based jobs problems and reviews research on the most cost-effective programs to address these problems. The report also reviews current state government efforts to target job opportunities to distressed places, pointing out that such targeting is frequently too modest and poorly designed. As an alternative, this report proposes that state governments adopt two targeted block grant programs: a “Local Job Creation” block grant; a “Neighborhood Employment Opportunities” block grant. The costs, benefits, and distributional effects of these block grants are described
The Case for Dynamic Cities
Get PDFCities today are confronting never-before-seen challenges to their top spot in the economic hierarchy. In this chapter, we lay out four challenges, past and future, that cities face today and identify policies that can help address the problems we identify. We call attention to the need for many U.S. cities to redevelop the large amount of aging postwar single-family housing, while reforming past exclusionary zoning and infrastructure decisions that exacerbated inequality. Cities will have to fix these past mistakes against the backdrop of an aging population and the rise of remote working, both of which undercut cities’ traditional source of growth by reducing the flow of younger and middle-aged people willing to live in urban centers. The common theme running throughout this paper is that cities, their residents and their business leaders will need to embrace a dynamic ethos and be given a freer hand to reposition their municipalities to face a future that is shaping up to be quite different from the past
Exalted and Assaulted: Conflicted Sentiments about the Profession of Classroom Teaching in America
Get PDFThis book examines the labor market for K-12 teachers and why an increasing number of them are leaving the profession and fewer students are entering it. It also looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the teaching profession and provides policy recommendations aimed at strengthening the profession.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1287/thumbnail.jp
