State Unemployment Insurance Trust Solvency and Benefit Generosity

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 536-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Smith ◽  
Jeffrey B. Wenger
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
State Unemployment

Insuring Free Trade: Unemployment Insurance and Trade Policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Y. Kono
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
State Level ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
State Unemployment

Research shows that trade openness and high social spending go hand in hand, at least in wealthy democracies. It is not clear, however, exactly why this is so. Many scholars and policymakers argue that generous social spending facilitates trade liberalization, but there is no direct empirical support for this claim. This paper is the first to show directly that social spending promotes freer trade. Specifically, I show that U.S. state-level unemployment insurance makes Congress members significantly more likely to vote for freer trade. Since state unemployment insurance is exogenous to individual congressional votes, my analysis shows clearly that the former affects the latter. My results imply that social spending insures not only citizens but also open trade policies against hard economic times. They also highlight the importance of subnational policy choices to national policy outcomes.

Nonmonetary Eligibility in State Unemployment Insurance Programs: Law and Practice.

ILR Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 616
Author(s):  
Ronald G. Ehrenberg ◽  
Walter Corson ◽  
Alan Hershey ◽  
Stuart Kerachsky
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
State Unemployment
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