To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5 … large and positive. In Poland there were also large and positive earnings impacts. A negative estimated earnings impact in … Poland, outside of service industries in Hungary, and outside of manufacturing and construction in Poland. …

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of …-employment, and comparison groups were done in Hungary and Poland in early 1997. Preliminary analysis suggests positive net impacts … Poland to assess how representative the comparison groups are of the general population of registered unemployed workers. …