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This book is about the relationships between research, policy, and programs that have dealt with the...
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This book is about the relationships between research, policy, and programs that have dealt with the problems faced by experienced, unemployed workers over the past 25 years. Much of the book focuses on a series of eight large-scale social science experiments, known as the Unemployment Insurance (UI) experiments, conducted during the late 1980s and early 1990s, which sought to help dislocated workers return to work in five ways: job search assistance, reemployment bonuses, short-term training, relocation assistance, and self-employment assistance. Author Wandner (US Department of Labor) describes the experiments and evaluates the policies and legislative initiatives that resulted from them. An underlying theme is that rigorous research should be used to support and implement policy initiatives. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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