This report outlines design parameters, evaluation methods, data sources, tasks, timelines and next steps for conducting a wage insurance and a wage supplement demonstration and accompanying evaluations. The report proposes ...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate current and alternative methods of determining exhaustion ratios under the regular unemployment insurance (UI) program and to try to develop methods for determining these ratios for ...

This report introduces and describes the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program that provides short-term income support payments to eligible persons whose unemployment is caused by circumstances beyond their control. This ...

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' ...

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 ...

The Federal-State Extended Benefits (EB) Program permits eligible individuals to receive benefits equal to one-half of their entitlement under the regular State unemployment insurance program up to a maximum of 39 weeks ...

Previous studies of unemployment insurance have obtained estimates for reduced form model consisting of two equations: the duration equation and the post unemployment earnings equation. These equations do not, however, ...

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 ...

One of two reports from the Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program provide impact estimates, for both participants and nonparticipants, of the TAA program under the 2002 amendments. Estimated impacts ...

The purpose of this report is to assess the feasibility of developing and operating a program of extended UI benefits at the substate level. In principle, extended benefits might be more effectively targeted toward workers ...