Self-Employment as a Reemployment Option: Demonstration Results and NationalLegislation

摘要

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has been conducting a series of nationaldemonstration projects exploring innovative ways of using unemployment insurance (UI) to assist unemployment workers in making the transition to new jobs. These projects, the Unemployed Insurance (UI) Self-Employment Demonstration Projects, were designed to assist UI recipients interested in self-employment to 'create their own jobs' by starting a business venture. The projects also used experimental research methods, including a control group, so that they could provide evaluation results that tell us whether self-employment programs for unemployed workers can be effective and efficient as full-scale programs. The results of the Washington and Massachusetts demonstration projects have been carefully evaluated by an independent research firm and are summarized in a report included in this publication, 'A Comparative Analysis of the Washington and Massachusetts UI Self-Employment Demonstrations.'