This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof …

Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start … up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary basis, we estimate the causal effect of UI cover on the self-employment …

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 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 … unemployment insurance claimants a modest cash bonus for rapid reemployment would increase the speed of return to work and reduce …

and whites. This note points out that the link between spatial mismatch and commuting times may be weak when employment … probabilities decline as the distance from job site to residence increases. A simple spatial model of urban employment is developed … employment probabilities decline with distance. …

The Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1993, Public Law 103-152, require each state employment security agency to … insurance beneficiaries who are most likely to exhaust their regular benefits, and refer them quickly to reemployment services … to speed the transition to new employment. This brief paper was prepared for a national colloquium on WPRS held June 11 …

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

) impacts of a 10-percentage point increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) replacement rate on the expected duration of …