scholarly journals Unemployment Insurance Claims and Economic Activity

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Gavin ◽  
Kevin L. Kliesen
2002 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Gavin ◽  
Kevin L. Kliesen

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-225
Author(s):  
ChiaKo Hung ◽  
Morgen S. Johansen ◽  
Jennifer Kagan ◽  
David Lee ◽  
Helen H. Yu

This essay provides a reflective commentary outlining Hawai’i’s unconventional response for employing a volunteer workforce of public servants when faced with the task of processing an unprecedented backlog of unemployment insurance claims triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Although efforts are still ongoing, this essay applies volunteerism and public service motivation as a framework to explain why public servants would serve in a voluntary capacity at another public agency. The intent of this essay is to spur conversation on how public servants are further stepping up to the frontlines during times of crisis, as well as expand knowledge on the relationship between volunteerism and public service motivation.


1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
KYUNG WON LEE ◽  
JAMES R SCHMIDT ◽  
GEORGE E. REJDA

Author(s):  
Daniel Aaronson ◽  
Scott A. Brave ◽  
R. Andrew Butters ◽  
Michael Fogarty ◽  
Daniel W. Sacks ◽  
...  

Significance Unemployment insurance claims have risen sharply during the pandemic. The Labor Department will release its latest data later today: total claims are likely to involve 30 million people or more. Before April, claims were in the low hundreds of thousands. Impacts The Federal Reserve will support domestic and global access to credit, but there is no clear exit strategy. Higher unemployment will disproportionately affect Latinos and African-Americans. Tackling the after-effects of COVID-19 will be a preoccupation in the early stages of the next presidential term.


2021 ◽  
pp. 0013189X2199205
Author(s):  
Oded Gurantz ◽  
Christopher Wielga

We examine changes in California’s FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) applications during the COVID-19 crisis. There was little change in applications for high school graduates due to an early deadline for state aid. After the deadline—from early March to mid-August—FAFSA applications of potential college freshmen declined 14%, relative to prior years. Although there were initial declines in applications among more experienced undergraduates and graduate students, these quickly rebounded and were 8% higher relative to prior years. FAFSA applications increased more in counties that had larger increases in unemployment insurance claims but declined more in zip codes that were lower income or were more heavily Black and Hispanic.


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