Unemployment Insurance: Strengthening the Relationship Between Theory and Policy

Walter Nicholson and Karen Needels

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Abstract: Ever since the U.S. federal-state system of unemployment insurance was founded in the 1930s, it has provided partial, temporary replacement of wages to eligible workers who lose jobs “through no fault of their own†(as determined by state-level regulations).

Keywords: Unemployment; Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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