Over the past five years, 33 state workforce agencies have implemented systems that allow unemployed workers to file initial unemployment insurance claims over the internet. In addition to providing extended hours of access, these systems have reduced administrative costs and provided a more...

Despite the unusually strong labor market of the late 1990s, the labor market outcomes for UI recipients--particularly exhaustees--are surprisingly poor. Notes that recipients in 1998, when compared with their counterparts a decade earlier, were less likely to have a job two years after their...

Despite the unusually strong labor market of the late 1990s, the labor market outcomes for UI recipients--particularly exhaustees--are surprisingly poor. Notes that recipients in 1998, when compared with their counterparts a decade earlier, were less likely to have a job two years after their...