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Dr. O’Leary has evaluated ways to improve unemployment insurance and active labor market programs. His research has been supported by several states, federal agencies, the World Bank, ILO, and OECD. His papers and reports have been published widely and in several languages.

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About Christopher J. O'Leary

Dr. O’Leary has evaluated ways to improve unemployment insurance and active labor market programs. His research has been supported by several states, federal agencies, the World Bank, ILO, and OECD. His papers and reports have been published widely and in several languages.

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Social and Behavioral Sciences, Economics, and Labor Economics

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Predictive Analytics Supporting Labor Market Success: A Career Explorer for Job Seekers and Workforce Professionals in Michigan (Christopher J. O'Leary, Salomon Orellana, Kevin Doyle, et al.) Upjohn Institute Working Papers (2023)

Career Explorer provides customized career exploration tools for workforce development staff and job seekers in Michigan. There are separate Career Explorer modules for mediated staff services and self-service by job seekers. The system was developed ...

Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) in Maryland—Program Year 2020 Evaluation (Gabrielle Pepin, Christopher J. O'Leary, Kenneth J. Kline, et al.) Upjohn Institute Technical Reports (2023)

Why Are Unemployment Insurance Claims So Low? (Christopher J. O'Leary, Kenneth J. Kline, Thomas A. Stengle, et al.) Employment Research Newsletter (2023)

Equity in Unemployment Insurance Benefit Access (Christopher J. O'Leary, William E. Spriggs and Stephen A. Wandner) Presentations (2023)

Why Are Unemployment Insurance Claims So Low? (Christopher J. O'Leary, Kenneth J. Kline, Thomas A. Stengle, et al.) Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs (2023)

Why Are Unemployment Insurance Claims So Low? (Christopher J. O'Leary, Kenneth J. Kline, Thomas A. Stengle, et al.) Upjohn Institute Working Papers (2023)

In this paper, we examine the reasons why unemployment insurance (UI) claims have declined so dramatically over the past three decades. The fall in the UI claims rate is concerning because it suggests a reduced ...

Michigan Unemployment Insurance: Background for Planning Analysis (Christopher J. O'Leary) Presentations (2023)

Unemployment Insurance: Fix It and Fund It (Christopher J. O'Leary, David E. Balducchi and Ralph E. Smith) Upjohn Institute Policy Papers (2023)

During the 2020–2021 pandemic, the federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) system in the United States nearly reached the breaking point. The surge in joblessness was matched in history only by the Great Depression of the 1930s. ...

Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) in Maryland—Plan for Annual Assessments with Incremental Improvements (Christopher J. O'Leary, Gabrielle Pepin and Ting Zhang) Upjohn Institute Technical Reports (2022)

How Federal Pandemic Relief Helped Replenish State Unemployment Reserves (Christopher J. O'Leary and Kenneth J. Kline) Employment Research Newsletter (2022)

Equity in Unemployment Insurance Benefit Access (Christopher J. O'Leary, William E. Spriggs and Stephen A. Wandner) External Papers and Reports (2022)

How Federal Pandemic Relief Helped Replenish State Unemployment Reserves (Christopher J. O'Leary and Kenneth J. Kline) Upjohn Institute Policy Papers (2022)

Unemployment insurance (UI) is a joint federal-state program that pays temporary partial earnings replacement to involuntarily unemployed workers while they seek reemployment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, UI claims surged and became a primary source for ...

Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) in Maryland—Formative Evaluation, Program Year 2019 (Christopher J. O'Leary, Gabrielle Pepin, Ting Zhang, et al.) Upjohn Institute Technical Reports (2022)

Unemployment insurance (UI) exists to provide temporary partial wage replacement during periods of involuntary unemployment while beneficiaries are actively seeking reemployment. The reemployment effort required of UI beneficiaries, which balances the work disincentive of income ...

Equity in Unemployment Insurance Benefit Access (Christopher J. O'Leary, William E. Spriggs and Stephen A. Wandner) Presentations (2022)

Equity in Unemployment Insurance Benefit Access (Christopher J. O'Leary, William E. Spriggs and Stephen A. Wandner) Upjohn Institute Policy Papers (2021)

This paper examines the uneven pattern of access to unemployment insurance (UI) by age, gender, and race across the United States. We present results from a descriptive analysis using publicly available longitudinal data reported by ...

Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) in Maryland: Process Analysis Report (Christopher J. O'Leary, Gabrielle Pepin, Ting Zhang, et al.) Upjohn Institute Technical Reports (2021)

Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance (David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, et al.) Journal Articles (2021)

Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary ...

Effects of Job Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes in Brazil (Christopher J. O'Leary, Túlio Cravo, Ana Cristina Sierra, et al.) Journal Articles (2021)

This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil’s National Employment System (SINE) to assess the impact of SINE job interview referrals on labor market outcomes. We use data from a five-year ...

Heterogeneous Effects of Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Reforms on Layoffs (Túlio Cravo, Christopher J. O'Leary, Ana Cristina Sierra, et al.) Journal Articles (2020)

Extending Unemployment Insurance Benefits to Workers in Precarious and Nonstandard Arrangements (Katharine G. Abraham, Susan N. Houseman and Christopher J. O'Leary) External Papers and Reports (2020)

Research for Equity in Recovery IV: Unemployment Insurance During the COVID Crisis: Lessons for Improving the UI Program (Lei Ding, Christopher J. O'Leary, Suzanne Simonetta, et al.) Presentations (2020)

This panel will focus on changes in unemployment insurance (UI) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and how lessons from these changes can guide reform of the federal-state UI system. For ...

Unemployment Insurance and Means-Tested Program Interactions: Evidence from Administrative Data (Pauline Leung and Christopher J. O'Leary) Journal Articles (2020)

An Unemployment Insurance COVID-19 Crisis Response (Stephen A. Wandner and Christopher J. O'Leary) Employment Research Newsletter (2020)

Reforming Unemployment Insurance (Christopher J. O'Leary) Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs (2020)

States Lack Adequate Unemployment Insurance Reserves (Christopher J. O'Leary) Upjohn Institute Policy and Research Briefs (2020)