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Issue: 1989-1
The Secretary's Seminars on Unemployment Insurance
DescriptionDuring 1988, a series of Secretary?s Seminars on Unemployment Insurance were held at the U.S. Department of Labor under the sponsorship of Secretary of Labor Ann McLaughlin. These seminars, which were attended by representatives of business, labor, and the general public, examined research on three important UI policy issues. The first seminar, held on June 27, 1988, addressed the widening gap …
PopulationAdult, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyTechnical Assistance
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Issue: 1988-4
Referral of Long-Term Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claimants to Reemployment Services
DescriptionThis study addresses the feasibility of identifying and targeting services to long term UI claimants who need reemployment services and have reached the later stages of their UI benefit period. The study is designed to complement earlier UI claimants to accept reemployment services during the early during the early states of their unemployment period. … Alabama … Iowa … Indiana … Minnesota … New …
PopulationAdult, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
Release Date:
Issue: 1988-3
An Examination of Declining UI Claims During the 1980's
DescriptionClaims for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that are payable under regular state programs declined significantly during the 1980s relative to total unemployment. The purpose of this report is to present the results of an extensive study of the resasons for this decline. This study was based on statistical analyses of national data over the 1948 to 1986 period, on analyses of more detailed …
PopulationAdult, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
Release Date:
Issue: 1988-2
UI Research Exchange
DescriptionThe UI Research Exchange is published by the Unemployment Insurance Service to increase the effectiveness of research throughout the UI program. To achieve this goals, the Exchange provides a means of communication among researchers and between researchers and policymakers. The Exchange is designed to be an open forum for all UI researchers. Two contributed papers are included in this issue. The …
PopulationAdult, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
Release Date:
Issue: 1988-1
Work Search Among Unemployment Insurance Claimants: An Investigation of Some Effects of State Rules and Enforcement
DescriptionThe purpose of the study was to determine the effects of UI work search rules, the characteristics of claimants, and labor-market conditions on the work-search behavior of claimants (which is an intermediate outcome of interest) and on the length of UI claims spells, the job-finding success of claimants, and UI payment error rates (which are the ultimate outcomes of interest). … Alaska … Idaho … …
PopulationAdult, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
Release Date:
Issue: 1987-2
Short-time Compensation: A Handbook of Basic Source Material
DescriptionThe purpose of this handbook is to provide a ready reference tool for those interested in short-time compensation (STC) whereby work sharing is tied to pro-rata payment of regular weekly unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, as an alternative to layoffs. This handbook provides: a copy of the federal legislation enacted in 1982; a 1986 evaluation of the short-time compensation (STC) programs in …
PopulationAdult, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyTechnical Assistance
Release Date:
Issue: 1987-1
An Analysis of UI Trust Fund Adequacy
DescriptionThis report examines the question of trust fund adequacy in State Unemployment Insurance (UI). It is intended to provide both a general overview of UI trust fund management issues and specific observations on how the responsiveness of UI taxes affects the level of reserves needed by individual states. The discussion is initially presented at a general level and then in much more detail in later …
PopulationAdult, New Entrants/Reentrants
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
Release Date:
Issue: 1986-6
Measuring Structural Unemployment
DescriptionThis publication presents four papers and comments that were delivered at a session of the annual meeting of the Western Economic Association on July 43, 1986 in San Francisco. The session was titled ?Measuring Structural Unemployment.? The papers have been revised-in some cases substantially-from the earlier versions that were distributed at the meeting. The papers reflect the interest of the …
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Issue: 1986-5
Fifty Years of Unemployment Insurance--A Legislative History: 1935-1985
DescriptionThis report, which was originally undertaken to mark the observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the enactment of the Social Security Act of 1935, which initiated the Federal State Unemployment Compensation Program, is a source of basic information for students and the general public, and as a work tool for staffs of Federal and State unemployment compensation agencies. … … U.S. Department of …
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Issue: 1986-4
An Evaluation of Short-time Compensation Programs
DescriptionShort-time compensation (STC) is an alternative to employee layoffs, whereby a larger group of workers simply work shorter work weeks and are compensated for their lost work time with partial Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits. STC may offer a mechanism for neutralizing the pre-layoff bias inherent in the regular UI system by allowing UI compensation to be paid under a much broader set of …