Iowa Workforce Monthly, February 2010, Issue 13

Highlights: * Iowa’s Unemployment Insurance Tax Bureau is getting a new online filing system, called My Iowa UI.............pg. 2 * Disability Navigator Jade Hunt sent us this success story..........................pg. 2 * Frank Nucaro attended Re-Employment Services (RES) training in December and the Skills Development lab in January...........................................pg. 2

Audit report on the Northeast Iowa Schools Insurance Trust for the year ended June 30, 2009

Audit report on the Northeast Iowa Schools Insurance Trust for the year ended June 30, 2009

Equilibrium Unemployment and the Duration of Unemployment Benefits

This paper uses microdata to evaluate the impact on the steady-state unemployment rate of an increase in maximum benefit duration. We evaluate a policy change in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration and use this policy change to estimate the causal impact of benefit duration on labor market flows. We find that the policy change leads to a significant increase in the steady-state unemployment rate and, surprisingly, most of this increase is due to an increase in the inflow into rather than the outflow from unemployment.

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2001

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2001

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2002

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2003

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2003

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2003

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2004

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2004

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2005

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2005

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2006

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2006

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2007

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2007

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2008

Iowa Insurance Division Report to the Governor for Year End 2008

Iowa Workforce Monthly, March 2011, Issue 21

Highlights: * Iowa Unemployment Rate Drops to 6.3 Percent...pg. 2 *Success Story-IowaWORKS: Fort Dodge..................pg. 2 *Northeast Iowa ECI: Promoting Workplace Safety *Training Session..............pg. 3 Additional Unemployment *Insurance Options......pg. 3

Level shifts in a panel data based unit root test : an application to the rate of unemployment

Several unit root tests in panel data have recently been proposed. The test developed by Harris and Tzavalis (1999 JoE) performs particularly well when the time dimension is moderate in relation to the cross-section dimension. However, in common with the traditional tests designed for the unidimensional case, it was found to perform poorly when there is a structural break in the time series under the alternative. Here we derive the asymptotic distribution of the test allowing for a shift in the mean, and assess the small sample performance. We apply this new test to show how the hypothesis of (perfect) hysteresis in Spanish unemployment is rejected in favour of the alternative of the natural unemployment rate, when the possibility of a change in the latter is considered.