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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 

Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation; Meeting

SUMMARY: The Advisory Council on Unemployment Insurance Compensation 
(ACUC) was established in accordance with the provisions of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act on January 24, 1992 (57 FR 40657). Public Law 
102-164, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991, mandated 
the establishment of the ACUC to evaluate the overall unemployment 
insurance program.
    The ACUC recently, through requests for proposals, commissioned 
researchers to prepare reports on a variety of topics associated with 
the ACUC's deliberations on the reform of the unemployment insurance 
system. The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum for 
presentation and discussion of the results of these research findings.

time and place: The meeting will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 
August 18, 1994 and from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on August 19, 1994 at the 
Ramada Inn, 1230 Congress Street, Portland, Maine. A lunch break is 
scheduled from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. each day.

agenda: Conference participants will present and discuss the following 
commissioned reports:

1. Wage Insurance;
2. Unemployment Insurance and Consumption Smoothing;
3. The Evolution, Operation, and Effectiveness of the U.S. Employment 
Service;
4. The Effectiveness of the U.S. Employment Service;
5. The Interaction between Unemployment Insurance and Income 
Redistribution Programs: Evidence from the States during 1966-1989;
6. Unemployment Insurance Benefit Formulas and Part-time Work;
7. Immigration, Agriculture, and Unemployment Insurance;
8. The Incidence of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax;
9. Improving Employer Compliance with Unemployment Insurance Tax 
Reporting Requirements;
10. The Sensitivity of Unemployment Insurance Costs to Variations in 
Key Program Parameters: Evidence from the G-7 Nations;
11. Impacts of Wage Subsidies on Participants and Nonparticipants;
12. Issues in Financing Unemployment Insurance; and
13. Administering the Unemployment Insurance System.

public participation: The meeting will be open to the public. Seating 
will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Individuals with 
disabilities in need of special accommodations should contact the 
Designated Federal official (DFO), listed below, at least 7 days prior 
to the meeting.

for additional information contact: Esther R. Johnson, DFO, Advisory 
Council on Unemployment Compensation, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Room S4231, Washington, DC 20210. She may be 
reached at (202) 219-7831 (this is not a toll-free number).

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of June 1994.
Doug Ross,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 94-16325 Filed 7-5-94; 8:45 am]
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