Table of Contents:
  • Policy Issues
  • Saul J. Blaustein, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner
  • Coverage and recipiency / Laurie J. Bassi, Daniel P. McMurrer
  • Initial eligibility for unemployment compensation / Walter Nicholson
  • Continuing eligibility / Patricia M. Anderson
  • Adequacy of the weekly benefit amount / Christopher J. O'Leary, Murray A. Rubin
  • The duration of benefits / Stephen A. Woodbury, Murray A. Rubin
  • Work Incentives and disincentives / Paul T. Decker
  • Financing benefit payments.
  • / Phillip B. Levine
  • Trends in unemployment benefit financing / Mike Miller, Robert Pavosevich, Wayne Vroman
  • Fraud, abuse, and errors in the unemployment insurance system
  • The role of the employment service / David E. Balducchi, Terry R. Johnson, R. Mark Gritz
  • Intersection of unemployment insurance with other programs and policies / Walter S. Corson
  • Federal-state relations / Thomas E. West, Gerard Hildebrand
  • Unemployment compensation in the group of seven nations / James R. Storey, Jennifer A. Niesner
  • Summing up / Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner.