Experimental Evaluation of Missouri's Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Program

Peter Mueser, Marios Michaelides, Eileen Poe-Yamagata and Kyung-Seong Jeon
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Abstract: The Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program is a job-search assistance intervention targeting Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants in the United States. The program requires new UI claimants to attend a counseling session at the start of their UI claims to: 1) undergo an eligibility review to confirm their compliance with UI work search requirements, and 2) receive customized reemployment services. This study reports the results of a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Missouri RESEA program conducted in 2023, a period of strong labor market conditions. Results show that the program increased take-up of job counseling services and significantly reduced UI duration and benefit amounts collected, generating substantial savings for the UI system. Further, the program caused significant improvements in participants’ employment and earnings in the three quarters following UI entry.

Date: 2025-11-29
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DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/spfa6_v1

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