Fact Finding Report : Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations

This Fact Finding Report is submitted jointly to the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce. After release of this Report, the Commission plans a series of hearings and conferences with representatives of business organizations, labor organizations, other organizations that have presented testimony or statements, and the interested public to receive comments, reactions and suggestions as to the statement of facts and its implications for private and public policies and for the recommendations of the Commission.Within a period of six months of the presentation of this Report, the Commission plans to present a final report with recommendations to the two Secretaries

Unemployment Insurance and Reemployment among Older Workers

This paper examines the adjustment to involuntary unemployment of older and prime age unemployment insurance (UI) claimants including patterns of reemployment, earnings, and employment stability following job loss. The paper compares the experience of older workers aged 50 years and over with prime age workers aged 30 to 49 following a claim for UI benefits during the major labor market contraction in 2001. The data examined includes records maintained for program administration. The data on UI claimants includes those eligible for UI, those ineligible for UI, and those who exhausted UI. The study examines differences across older and prime age age groups within each of the aforementioned subgroups as well as contrasting patterns of reemployment, earnings, and employment stability. The analysis exploits rich data on quarterly claimant earnings in the first 11 quarters following these various groups’ claim for UI benefits

Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations for Planning Implementation

The proposed Back to Work Incentive Act of 2003 recommended personal reemployment accounts (PRA) that would provide each eligible UI (unemployment insurance) claimant with a special account of up to $3,000 to finance reemployment activities. Account funds could be used to purchase intensive, supportive, and job training services. Any funds remaining in the PRA could be paid as a cash bonus for reemployment within 13 weeks, or drawn as extended income maintenance for exhaustees of regular UI benefits. Personal reemployment account offers would be targeted to UI beneficiaries most likely to exhaust their UI entitlements using state Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) models. The draft legislation called for a budget of$3.6 billion for PRAs, with the money to be committed over a two-year period. This report provides a simulation analysis of questions relevant to implementation of PRAs by states. The analysis is done using data for the state of Georgia. Simulations rely on recent patterns of intensive, supportive and training services use. Simulations for alternative rules setting the PRA amount and varying behavioral responses are examined. Like the legislative proposal, simulated PRA offers are targeted using WPRS models. The key question examined is, how many PRA offers can a state make given a fixed budget? Proposed and alternative rules for sub-state budget allocation are also examined. The framework presented in this paper allows the exploration of several behavioral responses to incentives created by the PRA

The Professional Solution to the College Bubble

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Crosswalk of OES Survey Occupations to Other Occupational Classification Systems, 1982

The 1982 crosswalk consists of all (and only those) Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey occupations used during the most recent surveys of all industries covered by the OES survey program. Those OES occupations not surveyed during the referenced cycle are not included on the crosswalk. However, all nine digit fourth edition Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes are contained on the tape and have been assigned to either specific OES occupations, OES residual categories, or to an unassigned OES code because the DOT occupation is industry-specific and the industry is not within the scope of the OES survey

Studies in workmen's compensation and radiation injury; [reports].

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A handbook for job restructuring.

"This document was produced by the U.S. Training and Employment Service in the Office of Technical Support."Bibliography: p. 143-149.Mode of access: Internet