that paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily jobless workers prolongs unemployment. However, some … scholars also reported estimates that the additional time spent in subsidized job search was productive. That is, UI receipt … investigated positive incentives to overcome the work disincentive effects of UI. These were followed by experiments in the 1990s …

Targeting reemployment bonus offers to unemployment insurance (UI) claimants identified as most likely to exhaust … qualification period, targeted to the half of profiled claimants most likely to exhaust their UI benefit entitlement. …

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 provided financial incentives for UI modernization. The … having an alternate base period (ABP) for monetary determination of UI eligibility that includes the most recently completed … features: 1) UI eligibility while seeking only part-time work, 2) UI eligibility after job separations due to harassment or …

they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI … on the rise in long-term unemployment and UI exhaustions suggests that, even after the labor market recovers from the … recent recession, some UI recipients will have a difficult time finding a new job, while others will want to avoid going back …

they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI … on the rise in long-term unemployment and UI exhaustions suggests that, even after the labor market recovers from the … recent recession, some UI recipients will have a difficult time finding a new job, while others will want to avoid going back …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded … employment services. I also investigate the correlation of UI and employment services receipt with maintenance of self … joblessness within three years, and one-quarter of the newly jobless apply for UI benefits. About 87 percent of UI applicants have …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access … to UI. Although the expansion's aim is to smooth the income and consumption of previously ineligible workers, it is … possible that UI benefits simply displace other sources of income. Standard economic models predict that UI delays reemployment …

The unemployment insurance (UI) program was established in 1935. Unlike other social insurance programs created by the … partner working with state agencies that operate the UI program. Over the past four decades, however, the federal role in the … UI program has declined because of reductions in federal resources dedicated to the program and weakening policy …

This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program … to assess the impact of changes in UI eligibility criteria on layoff probabilities. We exploit exogenous program changes … introduced by executive and legislative changes in 2015 to estimate impacts while accounting for the number of prior UI benefit …