Unemployment Insurance: Receipt of Benefits has Declined, with Continued Disparities for Low-Wage and Part-Time WorkersDIANE Publishing, 2007 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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Fréquemment cités
Page 1 - Insurance (UI) program, which has been a key component in ensuring the financial security of America's workforce for over 70 years. The UI program is a federal-state partnership designed to partially replace lost earnings of individuals who become unemployed through no fault of their own and to stabilize the economy in times of economic downturn. In...
Page 5 - ... and 6.0 percent for 2003. These rates differ because our calculations excluded workers who were new entrants to the labor force, those who had a history of self-employment, and those who were younger than 18 or older than 64 in March of the survey year, and because there were technical differences between the database we used for our calculations (SIPP) and that used for the standard unemployment rates (Current Population Survey).
Page 2 - CDER's Associate Director for Safety Policy and Communication, in February and March 2007. We did not evaluate the effectiveness of FDA's efforts to respond to our recommendations. All of our work was conducted in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. In summary, we found that FDA lacked a clear and effective process for making decisions about, and providing management oversight of, postmarket drug safety issues.
Page 7 - Ul as a source of income by the number of workers who were unemployed. bWeeks worked prior to unemployment is the sum of the number of weeks that the person worked in the 12-month period immediately before his or her unemployment. Data are restricted to a subsample of unemployed persons who had a job during the 15 months prior to unemployment.
Page 3 - Our calculations of unemployed former workers excluded people who did not have a job in the 27-month period before the month that they were unemployed. Thus, all new entrants and some reentrants into the labor force were excluded 10 GAO, Unemployment Insurance: Factors Associated with Benefit Receipt, GAO-06-342 (Washington, DC: Mar.
Page 10 - We calculated the Ul rate of receipt by dividing the number of unemployed workers who reported Ul as a source of income by the number of workers who were unemployed.
Page 3 - Sufficient data for 1996, 1997, and 1999 to 2002 were not available because no new SIPP panels were initiated in the years 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, or 1999. A 3-year panel was started in 2000 but cancelled after 8 months for budgetary reasons, and thus could not be used for our analysis.
Page 1 - Sept. 7, 2007). 2We defined low-wage as an hourly wage which is less than that required for a full-time worker (40 hours per week/52 weeks per year) to earn the Census poverty threshold for a family of four...
Page 1 - ... we used a combination of methods. To determine the long-term trends in the usage of the UI program, we analyzed data on UI regular program recipiency rates provided by the Department of Labor.