Despite the unusually strong labor market of the late 1990s, the labor market outcomes for UI recipients—particularly exhaustees—are surprisingly poor. Notes that recipients in 1998, when compared with their counterparts a decade earlier, were less likely to have a job two years...

Within the past decade, nearly all states have changed, or have made plans to change, the process for filing initial claims for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. Formerly, to file a UI claim, workers who became unemployed had to appear in person at a local UI office. Under the new...

Available from: UI Occasional Papers, Unemployment Insurance Service, Frances Perkins Bldg., Room S-4519, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20210. (202) 208-5915 x200, Wayne Gordon. Ask for UIS Occasional Paper No. 97-3.