Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at …

Comparisons among state unemployment insurance (UI) systems can be misleading. Frequently quoted indicators of benefit … unemployment experience, would fare in different states. The authors use a micro-simulation approach to model the experiences of …

average duration of unemployment of long-term UI claimants by nine weeks. This was for UI claimants who were unemployed for at …

Unemployment insurance is intended to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement … during periods of involuntary unemployment. However, in performing this income maintenance function, unemployment insurance … may prolong spells of unemployment. Evidence from a field experiment conducted in Illinois in 1984 suggested that offering …

The Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1993, Public Law 103-152, require each state employment security agency to … implement a Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. WPRS systems are intended to identify unemployment …

Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is …

) impacts of a 10-percentage point increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) replacement rate on the expected duration of … unemployment; and (b) impacts of adding 1 week to the potential duration of UI benefits on the expected duration of unemployment … duration of unemployment by .3 to 1.1 week (a range consistent with, but only somewhat narrower than, the existing range of …

Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI …