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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 ...
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 ...
Unemployment Insurance in the One-Stop System
(1999)
DOL funded Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) to evaluate the existing linkages between UI and One-Stop systems in a sample of states and local areas that had relatively well-established One-Stop systems. The specific ...
Unemployment Insurance Claimant Satisfaction Study
(1998)
This report presents information from a national survey of individuals who filed claims for unemployment compensation in 1996 and 1997. The study examines their satisfaction with the Unemployment Insurance systems' services, ...
First Impact Analysis of the Washington State Self-Employment and Enterprise Development (SEED) Demonstration
(1994)
This report presents interim estimates of the impacts of the Washington State Self-Employment and Enterprise Development (SEED) Demonstration on the employment and earnings experiences of program participants based primarily ...