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Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Policy Workgroup
(1999-02)
The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) Policy Workgroup was established in January 1998. The WPRS Policy Workgroup was composed of State, Regional and Federal workforce development staff. The Policy Workgroup's ...
Unemployment Insurance, Welfare, and Federal-State Fiscal Interrelations: Final Report
(1996-11)
This report examines the hypothesis that unemployment insurance (UI) claimants have been shifted from the UI program to federally-financed welfare programs in order to reduce the costs of state-financed UI benefits. The ...
An Analysis of Pooled Evidence from the Pennsylvania and Washington Reemployment Bonus Demonstrations
(1991-12)
This publication completes a major research effort conducted over the past eight years to determine the effectiveness of providing incentives to unemployed workers to speed their return to work. This effort represent a ...
An Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Durations since the 1990-1992 Recession
(1999)
This report examines the reasons that average Unemployment Insurance (UI) durations have increased relative to historical norms. The review of the literature on UI durations presented in this report suggests several potential ...
Evaluation of Short-Time Compensation Programs
(1997-03)
Short-time compensation (STC) is an option within the unemployment insurance system that allows employers to reduce the hours of workers, while permitting workers to receive compensation for their partial layoff. This ...
Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Recipiency Rates
(1999-06-18)
The UI Recipiency Rate (Standard Rate) is the most commonly used measure to evaluate the effectiveness of the UI program, researchers have developed alternative UI recipiency rates to address some of the limitations of the ...
Unemployment Insurance and Employer Layoffs
(1993)
The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system finances benefits to unemployed workers by taxing employer payroll in all states and employee earnings in a few states. Benefit payments to unemployed workers reduce their costs of ...
The Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment Final Report
(1992)
The principal objective of unemployment insurance is to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement during periods of involuntary unemployment. In performing this income maintenance ...
Unemployment Insurance as an Economic Stabilizer: Evidence of Effectiveness Over Three Decades
(1999)
The countercyclical effectiveness of the UI program reflects the capability to dampen fluctuations in GDP during recessions and booms. In recent years, increasing attention has been directed towards the UI program, questioning ...
Extended Benefit Triggers
(1994)
This report responds to a request from Congress to the Department of Labor to examine the implications of using alternative triggers for extended UI benefits based on the insured unemployment rate (IUR)-the unemployment ...