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 …

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 …