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Evaluation of the Wisconsin Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Program

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  • Michaelides, Marios

    (Actus Policy Research)

  • Mueser, Peter
  • Poe-Yamagata, Eileen
  • Davis, Scott

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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 Wisconsin RESEA program conducted in 2022-2023, 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, requiring participants to attend a follow-up counseling session is shown to cause additional reductions in UI receipt, beyond those achieved by the initial session.

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  • Michaelides, Marios & Mueser, Peter & Poe-Yamagata, Eileen & Davis, Scott, 2025. "Evaluation of the Wisconsin Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) Program," SocArXiv zp24c_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:zp24c_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/zp24c_v1
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