unemployment; (4) active labor market programs are more likely to show positive impacts in a recession …

Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress …: involuntary unemployment and the expected welfare losses from work requirements. The paper generalizes past evaluation theory and … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

Using data from a social experiment, we estimate the impact of training on the duration of employment and unemployment … unemployment spells lead to biased estimates of the effects of training. We present and implement several econometric approaches … unemployment spells …