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Stephen Woodbury

Professor, Economics

Expertise

unemployment and unemployment insurance; employee benefits and compensation; pensions; health insurance

Current Research

Unemployment insurance and reemployment programs, wage inequality

Selected Publications

  • "Unemployment Insurance.” In The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy, edited by Daniel Béland, Christopher Howard, and Kimberly J. Morgan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 471–490.

  • "Financing Unemployment Insurance,” with Wayne Vroman. National Tax Journal 67 (March 2014): 253–268.

  • "Health Insurance Tax Credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Health Insurance Coverage of Single Mothers,” with Merve Cebi. Health Economics 23 (May 2014): 501–515.

  • "Retiree Health Benefits as Deferred Compensation: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study,” with James Marton. Public Finance Review 41 (2013): 64–91.

Government Focus

National, State

Public Service

Senior Economist, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Member, Southeast Michigan Economic Outlook Expert Panel, Oakland University School of Business Administration
2013-present
Co-Principal Investigator, “Financing Unemployment Insurance—Alternative Methodologies for Experience Rating of State Unemployment Insurance Taxes,” with Wayne Vroman (Urban Institute) and Chris O’Leary (W.E. Upjohn Institute), U.S. Department of Labor
2013-2016
Technical Working Group member, Evaluation of the Unemployment Compensation Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Mathematica Policy Research and U.S. Department of Labor
2011-2015
Director, National Academy of Social Insurance project on “Strengthening Unemployment Insurance for the Twenty-First Century,” funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and the Annie E. Casey Foundation
2009-2011
Deputy Director, Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation (U.S. Department of Labor), Washington, DC
1993-1994