The Changing UI Claimant Population: Is It Time to Retool Reemployment Services? Trends in Unemployment Insurance. Issue Brief #1.

This issue brief notes that labor market outcomes for UI recipients in 1998 were surprisingly poor, despite the strength of the labor market in the late 1990s. Also finds a substantial decrease in the use of reemployment services from 1988 to 1998. Suggests that implementation of WPRS systems may have concentrated services on a smaller group of recipients than in the past. A reduction in the capacity of the Job Service to provide services may also have played a role in the decline in reemployment service use.