The impact of pipeline completion on Alaska's Unemployment Insurance Fund

Technical Report · Fri Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:5373459

Pistoll, L

Because the end of the oil pipeline construction era is rapidly approaching, major impacts are expected on Alaska's Unemployment Insurance Fund. The extent of these impacts are conditional with respect to several variables, most of which are unknown. The ability to attract and provide ex-pipeline workers with new construction jobs in Alaska and the lower 48; the behavior, attitudes, and working habits of ex-pipeline workers; the ex-workers eligibilities for benefits; the average weekly duration of claims; are a few variables that will determine the extent of the impact on Alaska's Unemployment Insurance Fund. A study that would envelop all of these variables would be time consuming and extremely costly. Therefore, by concentrating solely on the working and unemployment insurance claim characteristics of those terminated from pipeline employment during normal operations, this study begins to understand possible ex-pipeline worker inclinations and behaviors associated with a large scale lay-off situation.

• Research Organization: Alaska Dept. of Labor, Juneau (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5373459
• Report Number(s): PB-269030
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
530100* -- Environmental-Social Aspects of Energy Technologies-- Social & Economic Studies-- (-1989)
ALASKA
ALASKA OIL PIPELINE
CONSTRUCTION
NORTH AMERICA
PERSONNEL
PIPELINES
USA
WORKMENS COMPENSATION