Year

2006

Source

Monthly Labor Review 129(6) (June 2006): 27-37

Abstract

This article examines whether unemployment insurance (UI) requirements pertaining to job searches and UI mechanisms connecting claimants with reemployment services tend to shorten the duration of those claimants' insured unemployment. Evidence is presented from a 2003 National Association of State Workforce Agencies survey of all State UI programs. Also presented is evidence about the effect of State UI policies and reemployment assistance on the duration of insured unemployment. Although the sizes of the estimated impacts differ, the consistent finding is that both UI work search requirements and UI reemployment services tend to shorten claimants' duration of insured unemployment by speeding their return to work.

Publisher

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY, Unemployment insurance, Benefits and duration, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, Employment Service and public training, Job search assistance, Job service and labor exchange, Public training programs