A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation

Katherine Baicker, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz, The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 1998), chap. 7, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/defining-moment-great-depression-and-american-economy-twentieth-century/distinctive-system-origins-and-impact-us-unemployment-compensation.