Jerry L. Kingston

The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Benefits on Reemployment Success

Examination of the relation of reemployment success to weekly unemployment insurance (UI) payments. Framework for analyzing the relationship between reservation wage and unemployment duration; Experiment performed on UI claimants in the United States; Empirical results of the study. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Export concentration and export performance in developing countries, 1954–67

The relationship between export concentration and various aspects of the export performance of 31 developing nations during the period 1954–67 is considered in this paper.1 Estimates of the magnitude, instability and time‐trend of both the geographic concentration of exports and export earnings are utilised to estimate the direction and strength of association between these aspects of export concentration, instability and growth.2 The analysis reveals diverse patterns of geographic export concentration among the countries, but offers little support for conventional views of an important direct relationship between export concentration and the instability or growth rate of export earnings.3

Unemployment Insurance Overpayments: Evidence and Implications

This paper presents the principal findings of the most comprehensive study yet undertaken of payment errors in the unemployment insurance (UI) program. Among the five states studied—Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Washington—the percentage of benefit weeks with payment errors ranged in 1981–82 from 12 percent to 52 percent, with an average of 26 percent. In each state, overpayments greatly exceeded underpayments, with inadequate job search efforts the primary cause of the overpayments found. The authors discuss the implications of their findings for previous research and for UI program administration.

Reported VS. Actual Job Search by Unemployment Insurance Claimants

This study compares self-reported job search contacts of unemployment insurance recipients with independently verified job-search contacts. For the total sample, reported contacts averaged 2.61 per week compared with actual contacts of only 1.78 per week; nearly one-fifth of the sample made no job contacts for the single weeks analyzed. The separate equations estimated for reported and actual job contacts suggest that systematic misreporting may distort the conclusions-particularly for the impact of unemployment insurance benefits on search intensity-that would result from analyzing reported (rather than actual) contacts. Some implications of the findings for reported unemployment rates also are explored.