privatization and unemployment in postcommunist countries, showing that there is little support for the proposed mechanism by which …

This monograph provides a relatively nontechnical summary of the prominent theories of unemployment that have emerged …

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 …

average duration of unemployment of long-term UI claimants by nine weeks. This was for UI claimants who were unemployed for at …

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 …