While many Americans dream about starting their own businesses, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from moving forward. Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) was designed to provide assessment, training, and technical assistance to individuals...

While many Americans dream about starting their own business and have the motivation to do so, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from realizing their dreams. Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) was implemented to help emerging entrepreneurs...

While many Americans dream about starting their own business and have the motivation to do so, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from realizing their dreams. Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) was implemented to help emerging entrepreneurs...

The authors discuss a group of supplementary results from the experiments, primarily the impact of the treatments on the earnings of claimants, the nature and quality of jobs, and employer attachment.

Presents the primary results of the experiments, namely the effects directly on the UI system. The impact on the dollar value of benefits paid to claimants and the duration of insured unemployment are also estimated.

Targeting reemployment bonus offers to unemployment insurance claimants who are most likely to exhaust benefits may help reduce benefit payments. Notes that targeting bonus offers using profiling models similar to those employed in state Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services systems can...

Describes participants and rules of participation in the experiments and then estimates the extent to which UI claimants assigned to the experiments failed to collect bonuses for which they were eligible. The amount "left on the table" has significant policy implications for any program modeled...