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Synthesis Report: Reemployment Synthesis
Topic Area: Reemployment
Findings:
The majority of reemployment interventions reduced weeks of benefit receipt and amount of benefits paid.
The reemployment interventions had varying degrees of effectiveness.
The Reemployment and Eligibility Assistance (REA) program boosted short-and long-term employment and earnings.
Job search assistance (JSA) services had favorable impacts on all outcomes examined, but employment and earnings impacts varied over time.
Reemployment bonuses appear to work in the short term, but their long-term effects are not known.
Lighter-touch interventions, such as profiling and changing employer contact requirements,yield more limited benefits.
Noel, B. J. (1998). Two essays on unemployment insurance: Claimant responses to policy changes (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from UMI (UMI No. 9922624). [Comparison between claimants who applied for UI benefits before and after WPRS]
Topic Area: Reemployment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Decker, P. (1994). The impact of Reemployment Bonuses on Insured Unemployment in the New Jersey and Illinois Reemployment Bonus Experiments. Journal of Human Resources, 29(3), 718-741.
Topic Area: Reemployment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Noel, B. J. (1998). Two essays on unemployment insurance: Claimant responses to policy changes (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from UMI (UMI No. 9922624). [Comparison between claimants who applied for UI benefits after WPRS only]
Topic Area: Reemployment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Park, J. (2012). Does occupational training by the trade adjustment assistance program really help reemployment? Success measured as occupation matching. Review of International Economics, 20(5), 999-1016.
Topic Area: Apprenticeship and Work-Based Training, Job Search Assistance
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Decker, P., & O’Leary, C. (1995). Evaluating pooled evidence from the reemployment bonus experiments. The Journal of Human Resources, 30(3), 534-550.
Topic Area: Reemployment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Spiegelman, R., O’Leary, C., & Kline, K. (1992). The Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment: Final report. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Topic Area: Reemployment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:O’Leary, C.J., Decker, P.T., Wandner, S.A. (2005). Cost-effectiveness of targeted reemployment bonuses. Journal of Human Resources, 40, 270-279.
Topic Area: Reemployment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Anderson, P. (1992). Time-varying effects of recall expectation, a reemployment bonus, and job counseling on unemployment durations. Journal of Labor Economics, 10 (1), 99-115.
Topic Area: Job Search Assistance, Reemployment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Klerman, J. A., Saunders, C., Dastrup, E., Epstein, Z., Walton, D., Adam, T., & Barnow, B. S. (2019). Evaluation of impacts of the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment (REA) Program: Final report. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates. [Comparison between existing REA group and partial REA group]
Topic Area: Reemployment
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:
