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Unemployment Insurance The Second Half-Century Edited by W. Lee Hansen and James F. Byers Modeled after Wisconsin’s own unemployment compensation plan in the 1930s, federal unemployment insurance has long been considered one of the most important public policy achievements of the New Deal. Always paying benefits according to legislative and administrative guidelines and never requiring a taxpayer bailout, the program has nonetheless undergone strains induced by structural changes in both the economy and the prevailing political milieu. An outgrowth of a conference to celebrate the program’s fiftieth anniversary, the papers collected in this volume describe the history of the program, analyze the strains it has undergone and that it faces in the 1990s, delineate the source of current debates over unemployment compensation, and offer suggestions for the future of the program.. W. Lee Hansen is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His publications include, Academic Freedom on Trial and Education, Income, and Human Capital. James F. Byers is professor emeritus of industrial and labor relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@wwwtest.uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

February 1990 LC: 89-040257 HD 485 pp.   6 x 9 6 figs., 46 tables Paper $24.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-12354-3 ADD TO CART

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