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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...