Reforming Unemployment Insurance

In this working paper Resident Research Associate Oren M. Levin-Waldman builds on earlier work (see Working Paper No. 140) to argue that the unemployment insurance (UI) system is in need of reform.
At a minimum, Levin-Waldman states, the system “needs to be tightened in such a way that it results in fewer
layoffs.” In addition, he says, it should be changed in order to offer greater assistance to the growing population of the
long-term unemployed.