,500 follow-up interviews were conducted in early 1997 by employees of local labor offices with persons in self …, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …

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 …

unemployment, but it did not appear to be a cost effective means of getting people reemployed in non-subsidized jobs. PSE is …

skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are …

associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …

actual unemployment. …

This paper examines labor market conditions and public employment policies in the United States during what some are … calling the Great Recession. We document the dramatic labor market changes that rapidly unfolded when the rate of gross … labor market support programs and the broad federal response. That response came through modifications to existing programs …