This paper discusses three ways that unemployment insurance is believed to effect the unemployment rate through its effect on the unemployed, on employers, and through its power as a countercyclical program.
This paper examines the effect which unemployment insurance has on the distribution of income in the United States.
This paper presents empirical estimates of the effects of the level of weekly benefit payments on the duration of unemployment and on the monetary returns of the jobs accepted by unemployment insurance recipients from Pennsylvania and Arizona in the late 1960s.
This paper summarizes the findings of an extensive theoretical study designed to discover the incentive effects on individual firms of the unemployment insurance tax as it is currently operated in most states.
This study uses data drawn from Unemployment Insurance (UI) systems in five different states to examine how variations in UI benefit levels, maximum weeks of eligibility, and work-test enforcement affect the duration of compensated unemployment and the outcome of job search.
This paper estimates a model for various demographic groups using Office of Labor Statistics methods. It then develops a simultaneous equation model that examines the unemployment insurance system as the product of the state laws and policies used to administer it. Both the single-equation and simultaneous-equation estimates tend to support the hypothesis that the ease of passing the work test accounts for the adverse effect of the unemployment insurance system on unemployment.