This guide is an update To The 2001 Guide to worker displacement that was published as a response To The Asian financial crisis. The Guide, drawing on experience primarily in North America and during the transition process in Central and Eastern Europe, explores how enterprises, communities and workers can respond To The financial crisis and how to reduce potential job losses. This includes possible strategies for averting layoffs and promoting business retention by communities, enterprise managements and workers' association. The guide is primarily for use in industrialized and transition countries, and is aimed at policy makers, employers and workers in developing appropriate responses that promote worker retention and employment during the recession.

This book is about the interrelationships between research, policy, and programs that have dealt with the problems faced by experienced, Unemployed workers over the past 25 years. Much of its focus is on a series of social sci ence experiments that were conducted during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is a lasting piece of the Social Security Act which was enacted in 1935. But like most things that are over 80 years old, it occasionally needs maintenance to keep it operating smoothly while keeping up with the changing demands placed upon it. However, the UI system has been ignored by policymakers for decades and, say the authors, it is broken, out of date, and badly in need of repair. Stephen A. Wandner pulls together a group of UI researchers, each with decades of experience, who describe the weaknesses in the current system and propose policy reforms that they say would modernize the system and prepare us for the next recession.

Project evaluation of the 1975 to 1978 National Supported Work Demonstration employment creation scheme to facilitate the return to work of the long term unemployed in the USA - covers project design and implementation, and its impact on ex offenders, former sufferers of drug abuse, dropout youths, and homemakers on long term social assistance; includes cost benefit analysis. Bibliography graphs, statistical tables.