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. …

To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5 …, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were … large and positive. In Poland there were also large and positive earnings impacts. A negative estimated earnings impact in …

. In labor markets with high unemployment, such employment changes may have significant net efficiency benefits, which …