Publications on Unemployment Insurance
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Unemployment Compensation in a Worldwide Recession (Occasional Paper)This paper examines data on unemployment compensation programs across a sample of 150 large countries that account for 99 percent of the world's population. It documents recipiency rates and replacement rates in the 66 countries with UC programs. It makes comparisons of the degree of earnings loss protection in countries arranged by geographic area and by income level. Overall it finds that UC replaces 11.7 percent of the earnings losses caused by unemployment.
| Posted to Web: July 01, 2009 | Publication Date: June 01, 2009 |
A New Safety Net for Working Families: Unemployment Compensation - A Lifeline in Tough Times (Audio / Video Files)Unemployment insurance (UI) helps millions of out-of-work Americans provide for themselves and their families. An automatic stabilizer, it can also help to maintain consumption when the economy is in a downturn. Today's prolonged and severe recession is putting unemployment insurance to the test, especially its ability to aid low-income families, who are unlikely to have savings that could see them through these tough times.
| Posted to Web: June 11, 2009 | Publication Date: June 11, 2009 |
Unemployment Insurance in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (HR1) (Commentary)The economic stimulus bill enacted on February 17, 2009 has several provisions related to unemployment insurance (UI). Several governors have objected to some provisions. In this document, Senior Fellow Wayne Vroman, an economist and researcher on UI, answers key questions about the program changes.
| Posted to Web: March 20, 2009 | Publication Date: March 20, 2009 |
The Minnesota Integrated Services Project: Final Report on an Initiative to Improve Outcomes for Hard-to-Employ Welfare Recipients (Research Report)The Minnesota Integrated Services Projects focus on improving the delivery of employment, health, and social services to families who receive cash assistance and have serious or multiple barriers to employment. Operating in eight sites, the project seeks to provide comprehensive assessments of participants' barriers, improve access to more complete services that address multiple needs, and coordinate services provided by multiple service systems. This is the final report in an evaluation of the project and describes the changes in the economic outcomes and family-related outcomes of ISP participants over a two-year period, provides estimates of the relationship between ISP participation and participants' employment and MFIP outcomes, and provides conclusions and policy recommendations.
| Posted to Web: March 20, 2009 | Publication Date: March 05, 2009 |
Unemployment Insurance: Current Situation and Potential Reforms (Occasional Paper)This short paper summarizes the current situation of state unemployment insurance (UI) programs in the United States. It describes benefit recipiency, UI trust fund balances and administrative financing. Policies are recommended to increase solvency of the trust funds, raise recipiency rates and to improve the adequacy of administrative funding.
| Posted to Web: February 04, 2009 | Publication Date: February 03, 2009 |