Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

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

Unemployment insurance (UI) provides temporary income support to workers who have lost their jobs and are seeking …

-state unemployment insurance (UI) program experienced dramatic increases in participation. Using Michigan program administrative data on … eligibility requirements. Unemployment insurance applicants with insufficient wage credits or job separations because of quitting …