Vroman introduces a model-based approach to the study of UI financing. He creates simulations for several large states in order to examine a series of funding issues, and analyzes the performance of those state's systems. In addition, he presents the regional aspects of UI funding. Vroman...

Blaustein offers the definitive summary of the U.S. unemployment insurance system. This is the first of a two-volume update of Haber and Murray's "Unemployment Insurance in the American Economy."

O'Leary and Wandner offer 15 original essays that reflect the current state of knowledge on policy issues critical to the performance and success of the nation's UI system. The essays are based on up-to-date program data, enabling the authors to provide analyses on and recommendations for issues...

Leigh provides a summary of the evolution of labor market programs in seven industrialized countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. He points out that a number of these nations are dealing with long-term unemployment by linking unemployment insurance...

The authors reexamine the experience rating provisions in the U.S. UI system and look at its effects on both temporary layoffs and long-term permanent layoffs. For temporary layoffs, they propose a higher degree of experience rating through a restructuring of the tax code while eliminating...

When - or if - the next recession hits, some states may find that their unemployment insurance (UI) trust fund balances will fall short of what's needed to pay for growing numbers of UI claims. The reason, says Wayne Vroman, is that the economic boom of the 1990s has given states the confidence...