Title

Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Analysis of Policy Issues

Year

1997

Abstract

This book presents 15 original essays that reflect the state of knowledge on policy issues critical to the performance and success of the nation's UI system. The essays are based on program data, enabling the authors to provide analyses on and recommendations for issues at the forefront of the UI policy debate. Topics include coverage, eligibility, adequacy and duration of benefits, labor market attachment, benefit financing, fraud and abuse, the intersection of UI with other income maintenance programs, federal-state relations (including devolution), and more.

Contents

  1. Policy Issues / Saul J. Blaustein, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner
  2. Coverage and Recipiency / Laurie J. Bassi, Daniel P. McMurrer
  3. Initial Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation / Walter Nicholson
  4. Continuing Eligibility / Patricia M. Anderson
  5. Adequacy of the Weekly Benefit Amount / Christopher J. O'Leary, Murray A. Rubin
  6. The Duration of Benefits / Stephen A. Woodbury, Murray A. Rubin
  7. Work Incentives and Disincentives / Paul T. Decker
  8. Financing Benefit Payments / Phillip B. Levine
  9. Trends in Unemployment Benefit Financing / Mike Miller, Robert Pavosevich, Wayne Vroman
  10. Fraud, Abuse, and Errors in the Unemployment Insurance System / Burman Skrable
  11. The Role of the Employment Service / David E. Balducchi, Terry R. Johnson, R. Mark Gritz
  12. Intersection of Unemployment Insurance with other Programs and Policies / Walter S. Corson
  13. Federal-State Relations / Thomas E. West, Gerard Hildebrand
  14. Unemployment Compensation in the Group of Seven Nations / James R. Storey, Jennifer A. Niesner
  15. Summing Up / Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner
  16. Appendix A : Significant Benefit Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws
  17. Appendix B : Selected Unemployment Insurance Financial Data

Note

Originally written for and presented at a conference held in June 1995 at Kalamazoo, Michigan. The conference was jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor and the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

ISBN

9780880991742 (cloth) ; 9780880991735 (pbk.)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY; Unemployment insurance; Benefits and duration; Benefit financing