Unemployment Compensation Beneficiaries and Benefit Rights in Ramsey County, Minnesota, 1939

To MEASURE T H E A D E Q U A C Y of dura t ion of benefits and determine wha t happened to individuals after the exhaustion of benefits, the Minnesota Divis ion of E m p l o y m e n t and Security undertook a study of the 5,150 workers 1 who began a benefit year in the first quarter of 1939 in Ramsey County , which includes the c i ty of St. Paul. Benefit r ights of the Ramsey Coun ty workers were examined and characteristics of the beneficiaries analyzed. 2 The extent and immediacy of reemployment of beneficiaries who exhausted benefit r ights were invest i gated. Characteristics of those in this group who received both unemployment compensation and relief grants were also determined. F ina l ly , the reemployment and relief experience of a 30-percent sample of workers w i t h unexhausted benefit rights was analyzed. The period over which the survey of reemployment and relief experience was made extended f rom the first quarter of 1939 through the th i rd quarter of 1940.