Low benefit recipiency in state unemployment insurance programs
By: Wayne Broman ; Urban Institute.
Contributors: Urban Institute.
Series: ETA occasional paper -- 2002-02
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Policy and Research
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Unemployment insurance -- United States -- States -- Statistics; Unemployment insurance claimants -- United States -- States -- Statistics; Unemployed -- United States -- States -- Economic conditions -- Statistics
Genres: Statistics
Notes: "June 2002."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-163).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: I. Background 3; title: II. Time Series and Interstate Variation in Recipiency 8; title: Aggregate Measures of Recipiency 8; title: Recipiency in National Time Series Data 9; title: Interstate Variation in Benefit Recipiency 14; title: III. Low Benefit Recipiency: An Accounting Framework 22; title: An Accounting Identity Decomposition of the WBTU Ratio 22; title: The Four Accounting Identity Ratios in National Data 26; title: Accounting Identity Ratios by State 28; title: Geographic Patterns of Low Recipiency 33; title: Indicators of UI Administrative Activities 36; title: Recipiency and Administrative Measures for Six Groups of States 40; title: Summary 43; title: IV. Measurement Issues 44; title: Key Definitions 44; title: Partial Unemployment Benefits 46; title: State Border Issues 50; title: Reason for Unemployment 63; title: Unemployment Duration 68; title: V. Determinants of the Accounting Identity Ratios 78; title: Determinants of the Application Rate, the ICNU Ratio 78; title: Determinants of Repeat Applications, the NICIC Ratio 84; title: Determinants of the First Payment Rate, the FPNIC Ratio 89; title: Relative Duration in UI Benefit Status, the ADUIAD Ratio 93; title: Summary of the Regression Analysis 102; title: VI. State Site Visits 104; title: Selection of States for Visits 105; title: Administrative Diversity 108; title: Information to Claimants About UI Benefits 111; title: Claims Filing, Specialized Claims and Claimants in Special; title: Circumstances 115; title: Factors in Initial Eligibility 120; title: Continuing Eligibility, Appeals and Claimant Satisfaction Surveys 128; title: Summary 134; title: VII. Regression Analysis of Three UI Administrative Variables 136; title: Monetary Eligibility Rates 137; title: Separation Determinations 142; title: Evidence of Stringency in UI Program Administration 148; title: Summary 153; title: VIII. Summary and Conclusions 155.