Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI …). UI provides temporary partial wage replacement to active job seekers who are involuntarily out of work. For older workers … brief background sketch of the labor market situation of older workers to examine issues of prime concern to older workers …

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 … representative workers and firms to compare 28 states and contrast the results with those obtained from more conventional indicators …

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 … insurance beneficiaries who are most likely to exhaust their regular benefits, and refer them quickly to reemployment services …

Traditionally studies of unemployment insurance benefit adequacy have relied on an expenditure survey. This is … estimator which accounts for rationing in the labor market. The results are used to compute labor market constraint compensation …

Social experiments conducted in Pennsylvania and Washington tested the effect of offering Unemployment Insurance (UI …

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

, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were … secondary employment effects of between 0.31 and 0.83 additional workers hired per person given self-employment assistance …. 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 … Poland to assess how representative the comparison groups are of the general population of registered unemployed workers. …

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 …