and the introduction of new mechanisms to help Americans cope with job loss and protracted unemployment. The particular …

Most states have exhausted their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund and borrowed from the federal government at …

Comparisons among state unemployment insurance (UI) systems can be misleading. Frequently quoted indicators of benefit … unemployment experience, would fare in different states. The authors use a micro-simulation approach to model the experiences of …

Unemployment insurance is intended to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement … during periods of involuntary unemployment. However, in performing this income maintenance function, unemployment insurance … may prolong spells of unemployment. Evidence from a field experiment conducted in Illinois in 1984 suggested that offering …

of federal, state, and local partners. The programs considered include unemployment insurance, training, youth programs …

The Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1993, Public Law 103-152, require each state employment security agency to … implement a Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. WPRS systems are intended to identify unemployment …

Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is …

, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of …