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 ...

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 ...

In this report, the authors present findings from Phase I of a four-year study of the design, implementation, and operation of worker profiling and reemployment services systems, an initiative legislated by Public Law ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics and behavior of Unemployment Insurance (UI) exhaustees and nonexhaustees and to explore the implications of this information for policy formulation.

This report provides Congress and the Department of Labor with the required feedback about the implementation and operations of the Worker Profiling and Redeployment System (WPRS) nationwide and the effectiveness of such ...