Title
UI Financing in the U.S.
Project Dates
03/01/2013 -
Description
The Urban Institute and Upjohn Institute will (1) write a comprehensive Unemployment Insurance (UI) Financing Guidebook and (2) analyze and simulate alternative methodologies for assigning tax rates in state UI programs. The guidebook is intended to assist state and national program analysts and policymakers in evaluating a wide range of UI tax policy issues. It will report best practices used by states in their tax structures and offer specific recommendations appropriate for construction of an adequate financing structure. The analysis of alternative tax structures will focus on the feasibility and impact of adopting different methods of experience rating of UI taxes. It will describe current procedures, analyze their advantages and disadvantages, develop alternative approaches of UI payroll taxation, and simulate the alternatives using employer-level data.
Sponsorship
The Urban Institute, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population
Subject Area
UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Unemployment insurance
Publications
A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Financing Methods, Wayne Vorman, Elaine Maag, Christopher O'Leary, Stephen Woodbury (2017)