markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of … active labor programs (ALPs). Follow-up surveys of participants in retraining, public works, wage subsidies, self …

increases labor supply. This paper considers the labor supply effects of the welfare reforms that have occurred since 1993, when … provides new estimates, of how many additional labor force participants have entered the labor force due to welfare reform. I … estimate that welfare reform from 1993-96 increased the U.S. labor force by between 100,000 and 300,000 persons. Between 1996 …

the dynamics of the local labor market, which go beyond the typical measures of unemployment rate, help to explain the … to employment that are different from the rest of the labor force and thus variables that more closely reflect their …

,500 follow-up interviews were conducted in early 1997 by employees of local labor offices with persons in self …

Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has emphasized labor supply policies, such as welfare reform or job training. Anti …-poverty policy in the U.S. has not emphasized policies to increase labor demand for the poor, such as public employment or … different groups? This paper estimates and simulates a model with several types of labor, using data from the Current Population …

tight labor markets of the 1990s. Based on case study evidence from the hospital and auto supply industries, we evaluate …