Disqualification from Unemployment Insurance Benefits and the Duration of Unemployment

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-408
Author(s):  
Henry E. Felder
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Insurance Benefits ◽  
Duration Of Unemployment

The Effect of Advance Notification of Plant Closings on Unemployment

ILR Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Addison ◽  
Pedro Portugal
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Job Displacement ◽  
Plant Closings ◽  
Insurance Benefits ◽  
Advance Notice ◽  
Duration Of Unemployment ◽  
Censored Observations ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Spell Length

Using data from the 1984 Displaced Worker Survey, the authors model the determinants of time without work following job displacement for a large sample of workers laid off because of plant shutdowns between 1979 and 1984. The major focus of the paper is on the role of advance notification in mitigating unemployment. The estimating procedure accommodates right censored observations stemming from continuing or open-ended spells of unemployment. Advance notification is found to have significantly reduced the duration of unemployment of those notified workers who did not draw unemployment insurance benefits and, in particular, of those who left the plant prior to termination. Advance notice had much less effect on the time without work of notified workers whose spell length of unemployment was long enough for them to collect unemployment insurance benefits.

scholarly journals Regional Variations in Cyclical Employment

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 863-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
M I Howland
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Capital Stock ◽  
Insurance Benefits ◽  
World War 2 ◽  
Short Run ◽  
State Employment ◽  
State Variation ◽  
Industrial Mix ◽  
Employment Decline

In this paper the author develops and tests a model of regional responses to national business-cycles. The model divides cyclical decline in each state into two sectors: a basic sector and a nonbasic sector. The industrial mix, capital—labor ratio, age of capital stock, level of unemployment insurance benefits, labor shortage, and extent of labor-force unionization of a state are hypothesized to influence the response to national recessions by the economy of a state. Employment decline in the nonbasic sector of the economy of a state is a function of employment decline in basic industries and is transmitted through a short-run multiplier. The model is tested on data from five post World War 2 recessions between 1950 and 1975. The findings indicate that industry mix at the two-digit Standard Industrial Code level explains 36% of the across-state variation in cyclical employment. The results also indicate that an old capital-stock, a nonunion labor force, and generous unemployment insurance benefits promote cyclical stability in state economies.

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