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Unemployment Insurance: Strengthening the Relationship Between Theory and Policy

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  • Walter Nicholson
  • Karen Needels

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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).

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  • Walter Nicholson & Karen Needels, "undated". "Unemployment Insurance: Strengthening the Relationship Between Theory and Policy," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 062881e2c70d4513829b70fee, Mathematica Policy Research.
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