Unemployment Compensation

Unemployment Compensation Legislation of 1941

W I T H T H E E N A C T M E N T in October of amendments to the Massachusetts law, the main State legislative ac t iv i ty of 1941 affecting unemployment compensation came to an end. D u r i n g the year the legislatures of 4 3 States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawai i , meeting in regular sessions, revised their unemployment compensation laws in some respect, and the United States Congr...

Introduction [to Unemployment Compensation Throughout the World]

Dependents of Unemployment Compensation Claimants in Delaware

U N E M P L O Y M E N T C O M P E N S A T I O N i n this country represents payment for a p a r t of the wage loss suffered dur ing unemployment . A n unemployed worker , except i n the D i s t r i c t of Co lumbia , receives a weekly benefit based only on his past wages, and f a m i l y responsibilities p lay no p a r t i n the determinat ion of benefit r ights . I n the D i s t r i c t , f r ...

Compensation of Regional Unemployment in Housing Markets

Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment differentials as a consequence of centralized wage bargaining, we show that clearing of land markets may undo the...

Unemployment compensation -- response to a crisis.