Thought Pieces
The Institute publishes various report, papers and case studies periodically. These are designed to capture best practices and new concepts. Its Unemployment Insurance State Opportunity Reports are produced bi-annually and examine key metrics for state programs.
Five Essentials for Modernized UI Work Search
John W. Courtney – Updated June 23, 2025
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How Much Longer Until Workers Come Back?
John W. Courtney – Updated January 28, 2022
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Unemployment Recovery Report in Nine Charts – January 2021
Unemployment Recovery Report in Nine Charts – December
Unemployment Recovery Report in Nine Charts – November
Unemployment Recovery Report in Nine Charts – October
Unemployment Recovery Report in Nine Charts – September
Unemployment Recovery Report in Nine Charts – August
Helping the Unemployed Millions Who Are Not On Furlough – Examining the Impact of Continued Work Search Waivers
Unemployment Recovery Report in Nine Charts – July
Unemployment Recovery Report – Nine Clarifying Charts – June
Containing COVID-Driven Unemployment: Five Reemployment Policy Ideas as Temporary Layoffs Become Permanent
Texas’s Nine Strategies to Reemploy Unemployment Insurance Claimants: A Sixteen-Year Look-Back
The Experience Catch-22 – Apprenticeship and other work-based training programs proven to fill gaps
Reemployment Best Practices – The Results from Three Leading States
Utah’s Reemployment Innovations, Speeding Laid-Off Workers Back to Work – a Seven Year Look Back
Work Search Requirements That Work: The Research
Rethinking Work Search Integrity – 100% Verifiable Activities
Preventing Long Term Unemployment – Three Points of Leverage
Proactively Tackling Long-Term Unemployment – Reemployment Strategies That Work
American Institute for Full Employment – January 2013
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A Look at Job Market Dynamics – 50 Million Hires
UI Tax Structure – Smarter Taxes
Reemployment Fast Track – The Emerging Online Path for Integration
Why Piddle Around? Jobs and Economic Development
Subsidized Employment Under the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund
The Wisconsin Experience
Self-Sufficiency in Hawaii’s Welfare Programs
Final Report on the Jobs Plus Program
John W. Courtney and William B. Conerly, Ph.D – March 1, 2001
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