An Analysis of UI Recipients' Unemployment Spells

Abstract

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' unemployment experiences. Three issues were investigated in detail: 1) Providing detailed description of such unemployment measures as initial unemployment spells, weeks of UI benefits collected, exhaustion rates for both regular and extended UI benefits, post-exhaustion unemployment, and post-unemployment wage rates; 2) Developing analytical models to explain and predict these unemployment outcomes using data from the CWBH system and; 3) Using the data to attempt an evaluation of the services provided to UI recipients by state Employment Services (ES).