of federal, state, and local partners. The programs considered include unemployment insurance, training, youth programs …

probably would have gained reemployment without government assistance. However, even after accounting for sample selection …, 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 …

average duration of unemployment of long-term UI claimants by nine weeks. This was for UI claimants who were unemployed for at …

We investigate the design of an optimal Unemployment Insurance program using an equilibrium search and matching model … calibrated using data from the reemployment bonus experiments and secondary sources. We examine (a) the optimal potential …, insurance considerations suggest that the potential duration of UI benefits would be unlimited under an optimal program. Hence …

) impacts of a 10-percentage point increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) replacement rate on the expected duration of …We translate the results of the three reemployment bonus experiments that were conducted during the 1980s into (a … unemployment; and (b) impacts of adding 1 week to the potential duration of UI benefits on the expected duration of unemployment …

average duration of unemployment of long-term UI claimants by nine weeks. This was for UI claimants who were unemployed for at …

) impacts of a 10-percentage point increase in the Unemployment Insurance (UI) replacement rate on the expected duration of …We translate the results of the three reemployment bonus experiments that were conducted during the 1980s into (a … unemployment; and (b) impacts of adding 1 week to the potential duration of UI benefits on the expected duration of unemployment …

We investigate the design of an optimal Unemployment Insurance program using an equilibrium search and matching model … calibrated using data from the reemployment bonus experiments and secondary sources. We examine (a) the optimal potential …, insurance considerations suggest that the potential duration of UI benefits would be unlimited under an optimal program. Hence …

unemployment insurance claimants a modest cash bonus for rapid reemployment would increase the speed of return to work and reduce …Unemployment insurance is intended to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement … during periods of involuntary unemployment. However, in performing this income maintenance function, unemployment insurance …