Bringing together policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to discuss job loss

Unemployment ; Displaced workers

Job loss: causes, consequences, and policy responses

From 2001 to 2003, 5.3 million workers were displaced. Beyond quantifying the numbers of jobs lost lie important questions about gains and losses from these changes and what policies may affect them. These questions will be addressed at an upcoming Chicago Fed conference.Displaced workers ; Unemployment

Assessing the impact of job loss on workers and firms

Many economists agree that the United States’ openness to competition and technological change raises our living standards, but sometimes results in job losses. This article summarizes “Job Loss: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses,” a conference which was cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Joyce Foundation.Unemployment ; Displaced workers

Colorado: Round 1 - State-Level Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

This report is part of a series of 21 state and regional studies examining the rollout of the ACA. The national network -- with 36 states and 61 researchers -- is led by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York, the Brookings Institution, and the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.Colorado is one of fourteen states and the District of Columbia that elected to operate a state-based health insurance exchange and to expand Medicaid in 2014 as part of the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These decisions are consistent with Colorado's approach to health care reform. Before the ACA was signed into law in 2010, the state had made incremental expansions in Medicaid eligibility and laid the groundwork for an insurance marketplace

Coins from Sippar

The seven coins described below are in the collection of the British Museum, under the heading ‘Coins from SIPPAR (Babylonia)’. Four of the coins have tickets with accession numbers dated to 1953; the other three appear not to have been registered at the same time, but the accompanying tickets note that they are from Sippar and these are written in the same hand and using the same ink as those dated 1953, indicating that they are probably from the same group

Dry Nitrogen Deposition in the Grand Tetons: a Baseline Study

Plant ecosystems are largely dependent upon nitrogen, but recent decades have presented many ecosystems with unhealthy increases in nitrogen deposition. Though a majority of nitrogen is thought to be deposited via precipitation (wet deposition), it has been discovered that as much as 25% of total nitrogen deposition can be attributed to gases and particulate-matter (dry deposition). The extreme sensitivity of terrestrial, alpine ecosystems has produced a substantial interest in the effects of nitrogen deposition in Grand Teton National Park (GTNP). Currently, GTNP is one of the most at-risk parks in the country when considering the effects of increased nitrogen content (nutrient enrichment). As dry deposition has not been previously measured in GTNP, the current study conducted baseline measurements of nitrogenous dry deposition at two locations within the park. Ammonia contributed the most nitrogen, followed by ammonium, nitric acid, and nitrate, respectively. Total nitrogen dry deposition was estimated at 2.41kgN/ha/yr for the lower elevation site (Driggs) and 2.12kgN/ha/yr for the higher elevation site (Targhee)

Job Loss: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses

From 2001 to 2003, 5.3 million workers were displaced. Beyond quantifying the numbers of jobs lost lie important questions about gains and losses from these changes and what policies may affect them. These questions will be addressed at an upcoming Chicago Fed conference

Bringing Together Policymakers, Researchers, and Practitioners to Discuss Job Loss

[Excerpt] On November 18–19, 2004, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Joyce Foundation cosponsored a conference at the Chicago Fed, “Job Loss: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses,” to bring together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss job loss from the perspective of both firms and workers. The first day focused on new research findings, with discussion and comment from participants with backgrounds in policy, practice, and research. The second day featured an address by Michael Moskow, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and panel discussions on layoff procedures from the point of view of firms and the post-layoff experience of workers. The balance of this special issue of Economic Perspectives presents papers by our keynote speakers, Lisa Lynch of Tufts University and Henry Farber of Princeton University, and the second-day panel participants. To begin, however, we provide an overview of the research results and discussion from the first day of the conference. This day was organized into three separate sessions. The first focused on the impact of job loss on workers. The second was devoted to the intersection of regulation and job loss. The final session focused on the impacts of job loss on firms. We discuss each of these in turn and then give a brief overview of the contributions of the keynote speakers and second-day participants that are included in this volume. We conclude with an overview of some of the recurring themes of the conference

Assessing the Impact of Job Loss on Workers and Firms

Many economists agree that the United States’ openness to competition and technological change raises our living standards, but sometimes results in job losses. This article summarizes “Job Loss: Causes Consequences, and Policy Responses,” a conference which was cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank Chicago and the Joyce Foundation

Two Syrian deities

Cet article prend en considération deux types monétaires, portant deux divinités mâle et femelle, que les savants considèrent habituellement comme cappadociens d’origine. L’étude des lieux de trouvaille et de leur composition métallique conduit à conclure que ces types circulaient en Syrie, non en Cappadoce. Les divinités représentées doivent donc avoir quelque rapport avec la Syrie. On suggère qu’il s’agit des dieux de Hiérapolis, Hadad et Atargatis, que l’on n’a pas reconnus jusqu’ici.This article considers two coin types, depicting a male and a female deity, which scholars traditionally considered to be Cappadocian in origin. A study of the find spots, and consideration of their metallurgy, leads one to conclude that these types were issued for circulation in Syria and not in Cappadocia. The deities depicted on the coins should therefore have some relevance for Syria. It is suggested that they are representations of the Syrian Gods of Hierapolis, Hadad and Atargatis, which have gone unrecognised until now.خلاصة – يأخذ هذا المقال بعين الاعتبار نمطين نقديين: يحملان ألوهتين، ذكر وأنثى، ويعتبرهما العلماء عادة على أنهما كبادوقيا الأصل. وتقودنا دراسة أماكن العثور عليها كما وتركيبها المعدني إلى الاستنتاج أن هذه الأنماط كانت متداولة في سورية، وليس في كبادوقيا. وبالتالي فإنه لا بد أن تكون للألوهتين الممثلتين عليها بعض الروابط مع سورية. ويعتقد أنهما إلها هييرابوليس، حدد وعرتغاتيس، اللذين لم يتم التعرف عليهما حتى الآن