The unemployment insurance (UI) system was established to alleviate the distress and hardship caused by involuntary … unemployment. Through weekly benefit payments to eligible claimants, the system helps maintain living standards during active job … percentage of lost income that benefits replace. More directly, adequacy depends on how the weekly benefit contributes to …

Approximately 10 percent of Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants in the United States are denied benefits after being …-fault claimant increases UI benefits paid by over $3,000 and lengthens the nonemployment spell by just under two weeks, but it does …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost …