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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... People who were never unemployed have all of their weeks out of the labor force assigned to a single period at the end of the year if the individual did not hold a job at that time and otherwise at the start of 30versimplifying, these procedures make the assumption that periods of work for the spouse offset periods of unemployment or disability for the head in the case of incapacitated parent units and unemployed parent units where the head worked part of the year and full time. For all other husband-wife AFDC units where both head and spouse had part-year employment or labor force participation, the procedures make the assumption that periods of work and unemployment of the head and spouse co .
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  • afdc unit
  • force participation
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