Earnings Supplement Project (ESP) – Testing a re-Employment Incentive for Displaced Workers
This report presents findings on the impacts of the Earnings Supplement Project (ESP) for displaced workers. It reviews the rationale, design, and implementation of the displaced worker study, and it provides a detailed account of ESP’s effects on the employment, wages, and amount and duration of EI benefits received by a group of workers who were experiencing permanent job loss.
Project Details
Capability: Experimentation
Policy Area: Income Security - Welfare and Employment
Population: Low-income Populations - Women - EI Recipients
Type: Report
Start Date: July 1996
Completion Date: March 2004
Sponsors: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
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