unemployment insurance claimants a modest cash bonus for rapid reemployment would increase the speed of return to work and reduce … program costs. In 1988 a similar experiment, examining several different bonus offers, was conducted in Washington State …. Evidence from the Washington experiment indicates that bonus offers do change job seeking behavior, but that only relatively …

We translate the results of the three reemployment bonus experiments that were conducted during the 1980s into (a …. Our approach is to use an equilibrium search and matching model, calibrated using data from the bonus experiments and …

) claimants a cash bonus for rapid reemployment. This paper combines data from the two experiments and uses a consistent framework … to evaluate the experiments and determine with greater certainty the extent to which a reemployment bonus can affect … economic outcomes. Bonus offers in each of the experiments generated statistically significant but relatively modest reductions …

Targeting reemployment bonus offers to unemployment insurance (UI) claimants identified as most likely to exhaust … benefits is estimated to reduce benefit payments. While earlier research indicated that non-targeted reemployment bonus offers … would not be good public policy, in this paper we show that targeting bonus offers with profiling models similar to those in …