In this report, the effects that recent changes introduced into the Extended Benefits (EB) Program in the early 1980s has had on the EB program is investigated. Quantitative estimates of the degree to which EB claims and ...

This volume of the Occasional Paper series presents two studies of interstate competition in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) system. Determining the extent of economic competition among states is an extremely difficult ...

This report examines the evolution of benefit availability in Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs. The focus is regular UI, the program that pays up to 26 weeks of benefits to eligible individuals. A major objective of ...

This study is the sixth in a series of reports based on the Arizona Benefit Adequacy (ABA) study. The first report emphasized the measurement of benefit adequacy under the prevailing and selected alternative weekly benefit ...

This report serves to evaluate how information collected by the Unemployment Insurance Service under the Continuous Wage and Benefit History (CWBH) System can be used to analyze unemployment insurance (UI) recipients' ...

The objectives of this project were to improve joint Employment Service/Unemployment Insurance (ES?UI) procedures for monitoring the work test and enhancing placement services for UI claimants in order to reduce weeks ...

This publication evaluates how information collected by the Unemployment Insurance Service under the Continuous Wage and Benefit History (CWBH) system can be used to analyze UI recipients' unemployment experiences.

Structural unemployment is long-term unemployment caused by disparities between the characteristics of jobs offered by employers and the needs, skills, and expectations of job seekers. This report focuses on these alternatives ...

Claims for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that are payable under regular state programs declined significantly during the 1980s relative to total unemployment. The purpose of this report is to present the results of ...

Previous studies of unemployment insurance have obtained estimates for reduced form model consisting of two equations: the duration equation and the post unemployment earnings equation. These equations do not, however, ...