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States' Decisions to Adopt Unemployment Compensation Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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  • Annalisa Mastri
  • Wayne Vroman
  • Karen Needels
  • Walter Nicholson

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The federal policy response to the recession and the lingering weak labor market included substantial changes to the unemployment compensation (UC) system, the most comprehensive of which was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

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  • Annalisa Mastri & Wayne Vroman & Karen Needels & Walter Nicholson, "undated". "States' Decisions to Adopt Unemployment Compensation Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," Mathematica Policy Research Reports bd21b1355ca44ebf87773e89a, Mathematica Policy Research.
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    1. Karen Needels & Walter Nicholson & Joanne Lee & Heinrich Hock, "undated". "Exhaustees of Extended Unemployment Benefits Programs: Coping with the Aftermath of the Great Recession," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 997d98336a084cd681f2e16a6, Mathematica Policy Research.
    2. Christopher J. O’Leary & Burt S. Barnow & Karolien Lenaerts, 2020. "Lessons from the American federal‐state unemployment insurance system for a European unemployment benefits system," International Social Security Review, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 73(1), pages 3-34, January.
    3. Heinrich Hock & Walter Nicholson & Karen Needels & Joanne Lee & Priyanka Anand, "undated". "Additional Unemployment Compensation Benefits During the Great Recession: Recipients and Their Post-Claim Outcomes," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 881bfec473cb45498e8392657, Mathematica Policy Research.

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