Rethinking employment policy / Isabel V. Sawhill -- Do we know enough about the unemployment problem to know what, if anything, will help? / George E. Johnson -- Employer approaches to reducing unemployment / Robert Eisner -- Matching workers and job opportunities / Marc Bendick, Jr. --...

[...]This paper examines the recent recession, with particularattention given to developments in the labor market and in UI program financing. Its three objectives are to describedevelopments in the macroeconomy and in the labor marketthat have relevance for UI funding issues, to present...