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Unemployment : a closer look /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Economic issues, problems and perspectives series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- UNEMPLOYMENT: A CLOSER LOOK
- UNEMPLOYMENT: A CLOSER LOOK
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: AVAILABLE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY
- SUMMARY
- INTRODUCTION
- UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
- Authorization
- Appropriation and Outlays
- Administration
- Eligibility for Regular Unemployment Compensation
- Broad Federal Guidelines Result in Different State Requirements
- Base Period
- Alternative Base Period
- Extended Base Period
- Base Period Provisions in the 2009 Stimulus Package
- Qualifying Wages or Employment
- 2009 Stimulus Provisions Relating to Regular Unemployment Comp-ensation
- Data Collection Considerations
- Determination and Duration of Regular Unemployment Compensation
- UC Benefit Financing: Unemployment Taxes on Employers
- Federal Unemployment Tax Act
- ARRA Temporary Changes Federal Financing of Unemployment Benefits
- State Unemployment Tax Acts
- Outstanding Loans from the Federal Unemployment Account
- FEDERAL ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION
- EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION PROGRAM
- Previous Temporary Unemployment Compensation Extensions
- EUC08 Benefit Amounts, Tiers, and Duration
- Tier I
- Tier II
- Tier III
- Tier IV
- All Tiers Terminate November 30, 2010, with Grandfathering
- Tier I EUC08 Eligibility Requirements
- First Claimed Regular UC Benefits On or After May 7, 2006
- Exhausted Regular UC Benefit
- "20 Weeks" of Full-Time Insured Employment or Equivalent
- Tier II EUC08 Eligibility Requirements
- Exhausted Tier I EUC08 Benefit
- Tier III EUC08 Eligibility Requirements
- Exhausted Tier II EUC08 Benefit
- At or After the Period of Tier II EUC08 Exhaustion, the State Must Currently Have At Least 6% Unemployment Rate
- No Retroactive Payments
- Tier IV EUC08 Eligibility Requirements.
- Exhausted Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III EUC08 Benefits
- At or After the Period of Tier III EUC08 Exhaustion, the State Must Currently Have At Least 8.5% Unemployment Rate
- No Retroactive Payments
- EUC08 Financing
- EUC08 and EB Interactions
- EXTENDED BENEFIT PROGRAM
- EB Triggers May be Reviewed in 2010
- EB Eligibility Requirements Beyond Requirements for Regular UC
- Methods for Determining 20 Weeks of Full-Time Insured Employment
- 2009 Stimulus Provisions Affecting EB Level and Duration
- 2009 Stimulus Provisions Affecting EB Financing
- SHORT-TIME COMPENSATION (WORK SHARING)
- POLICY PROPOSALS THAT TARGET UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT EXHAUSTEES
- LEGISLATIVE ISSUES
- 111th Congress
- 2010 Budget
- P.L. 111-5, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- Unemployment Compensation Modernization
- Federal Additional Compensation
- ARRA Provisions Affecting the EUC08 Program
- Temporary Waiver of Interest Payments and the Accrual of Interest on Advances to State Unemployment Funds
- Temporary 100% EB Financing and Changes to EB Eligibility
- P.L. 111-92, The Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009
- P.L. 111-118, The Department of Defense Appropriations Act
- P.L. 111-144, The Temporary Extension Act of 2010
- P.L. 111-157, The Continuing Extension Act of 2010
- P.L. 111-205, The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010
- Current Legislation
- APPENDIX A. UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS
- APPENDIX B. SUMMARY OF EUC08 PROGRAM
- End Notes
- Chapter 2 UNEMPLOYMENT: ISSUES AND POLICIES
- SUMMARY
- THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
- POLICY STEPS TAKEN THROUGH 2009
- POLICY PROPOSALS
- December 2009 House Proposal (H.R. 2847)
- Infrastructure Spending
- Public Service Jobs
- Emergency Funding
- Senate Proposals
- President Obama's Proposal
- Incremental Jobs Tax Credit
- Discussion.
- Spending, Transfers, and Tax Cuts
- Job Credits
- ISSUES IN FINANCING JOB CREATION PROPOSALS
- Redirecting TARP Funds to Finance Proposals
- End Notes
- Chapter 3 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (UC) AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND (UTF): FUNDING UC BENEFITS
- SUMMARY
- THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (UC) PROGRAM
- Federal Unemployment Tax Act
- Expiring Provision: FUTA Surtax
- State Unemployment Tax Acts
- THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND
- The Unemployment Trust Fund and the Federal Budget
- Unemployment Trust Fund Revenues and Distributions
- State Unemployment Tax Revenues Are Credited to the State Un-employment Accounts Within the Unemployment Trust Fund
- Federal Unemployment Taxes Are Credited to the ESAA
- Each Month, the ESAA Distributes 20% of the Net Monthly Activity to the EUCA
- Other Unemployment Trust Fund Expenditures (Reed Act Distributions)
- Loans to Insolvent Accounts
- End Notes
- Chapter 4 UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION (INSURANCE) AND MILITARY SERVICE
- SUMMARY
- UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY FOR FORMER MILITARY PERSONNEL
- UCX Eligibility and Benefit Level
- Self-Employed and Sole Proprietor Ex-Servicemembers
- UCX Financing
- CIVILIAN SPOUSES WHO QUIT EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE OF MILITARY SPOUSE TRANSFERS
- Transferred Spouse Exception (Unconditional on Military Service)
- Military Spouse Exception
- IMPACT OF MILITARY SERVICE ON EMPLOYERS' STATE UNEMPLOYMENT TAXES
- End Notes
- Chapter 5 DOES UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE INHIBIT JOB SEARCH?
- UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE DOES NOT DISCOURAGE JOB SEARCH BEHAVIOR
- THE CURRENT LABOR MARKET PROVIDES FEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
- UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AS EFFECTIVE FISCAL STIMULUS
- End Notes
- Chapter 6 UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY: WORKING MOTHERS IN THE GREAT RECESSION
- MOTHER'S DAY 2010: AN UPDATE ON WORKING MOMS.
- FAMILIES DEPEND ON MOTHERS' EMPLOYMENT
- MARRIED MOTHERS SEARCH FOR WORK TO IMPROVE THEIR FAMILIES' ECONOMIC SECURITY
- SINGLE MOTHERS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT
- THE PART-TIME PENALTY CAN BE EVEN GREATER FOR MOTHERS
- End Notes
- Chapter 7 WOMEN IN THE RECESSION: WORKING MOTHERS FACE HIGH RATES OF UNEMPLOYMENT
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- VAST MAJORITY OF MOTHERS IN THE LABOR FORCE, MOST WORK FULL-TIME
- AS RECESSION CONTINUES, WORKING MOTHERS FACE RISING UNEMPLOYMENT
- Women of Color Are Faring the Worst in this Recession
- SUMMARY
- End Notes
- Chapter 8 UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY: LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- CONCLUSION
- End Notes
- Chapter 9 UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY: UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- BACKGROUND
- HISPANICS FACE HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT REGARDLESS OF GENDER AND AGE
- UNEMPLOYMENT SPELLS ARE TYPICALLY SHORTER FOR HISPANICS
- ONE-QUARTER OF THE HISPANIC LABOR FORCE IS UNDEREMPLOYED
- HISPANIC UNEMPLOYMENT IS DRIVEN BY INDUSTRY SECTOR AND GEOGRAPHY
- ADDRESSING THE PROBLEMS FACING HISPANIC WORKERS
- End Notes
- Chapter 10 UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY: UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG YOUNG WORKERS
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- BACKGROUND
- UNEMPLOYMENT IS HIGHEST AMONG TEENS
- EDUCATION IMPROVES EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS FOR YOUNG WORKERS
- UNEMPLOYMENT IS HIGH AMONG YOUNG MINORITY WORKERS, DESPITE EDUCATION
- YOUNG WORKERS ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY CONCENTRATED IN INDUSTRIES HARD-HIT BY RECESSION
- YOUNG WORKERS MAKE UP A DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE OF THE UNEMPLOYED
- HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT CAN HAVE LASTING CONSEQUENCES
- ACTION NOW CAN MITIGATE THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT
- End Notes
- Chapter 11 EXTENDING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BENEFITS: THE COST OF INACTION FOR DISABLED WORKERS
- UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS BOOST THE ECONOMY AS A WHOLE.
- SPENDING ON UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS NOW SAVES ON DISABILITY INSURANCE LATER
- End Notes
- CHAPTER SOURCES
- INDEX
- Blank Page.