The authors investigate the separate effects of a training program on the duration of participants' subsequent employment and unemployment spells. This program randomly assigned volunteers to treatment and control groups. However, the treatments and controls experiencing subsequent employment...

The authors exploit administrative data combining workers' earnings histories with information about their firms to estimate the magnitude and temporal pattern of displaced workers' earnings losses. They find that high-tenure workers separating from distressed firms suffer long-term losses...

The authors address two questions using experimental data on disadvantaged women. First, what is the impact of being offered Job Training Partnership Act classroom training on the duration of unemployment and employment? Second, what is the effect of actually participating in this training on...