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

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  • Mueser, Peter
  • Michaelides, Marios

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  • Poe-Yamagata, Eileen
  • Jeon, Kyung-Seong

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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.

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  • Mueser, Peter & Michaelides, Marios & Poe-Yamagata, Eileen & Jeon, Kyung-Seong, 2025. "Experimental Evaluation of Missouri's Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Program," SocArXiv spfa6_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:spfa6_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/spfa6_v1
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    1. Marios Michaelides & Peter Mueser, 2020. "The Labor Market Effects of US Reemployment Policy: Lessons from an Analysis of Four Programs during the Great Recession," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 38(4), pages 1099-1140.
    2. Marios Michaelides & Peter Mueser, 2018. "Are Reemployment Services Effective? Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 37(3), pages 546-570, June.
    3. Peter Mueser & Marios Michaelides, 2015. "Are Reemployment Services Effective? Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession (WP 15-09 is now WP 18-04)," Working Papers 1509, Department of Economics, University of Missouri, revised Feb 2018.
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