Employment Topics
Unemployment insurance is an important support for jobless Americans, although how best to structure benefits is the subject of ongoing debate.
We are evaluating the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the unemployment compensation provisions of ARRA, addressing questions relating to extended and emergency benefits that became available through the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008 (EUC08) and related legislation. Reducing veteran unemployment is another special policy concern, and the Army UCX Claimants initiative awarded grants to Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, and Texas, states with large veteran populations, to spur improvement in reemployment services for this group. Mathematica is evaluating this pilot initiative, which leverages assets and shares data across the unemployment insurance and workforce systems and the Army, examining projects in each state and identifying the extent to which they achieve the initiative's goals.
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Applying Behavioral Insights in Labor Programs
This project applied principles from behavioral science to diagnose challenges that might prevent people from benefiting fully from labor programs, and to design modest changes intended to improve program effectiveness. The project designed and tested four behavioral interventions.
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