8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:30 The Earnings Supplement Project
· Introductory Remarks - Jean-Pierre Voyer and John Greenwood
· Impacts of a financial incentive program for displaced workers - Saul Schwartz
· The impacts with repeat users of EI - Susanna Gurr
Discussant - Miles Corak
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Panel Discussion: What have we learned from the ESP?
· Julyan Reid, Steve Wandner and Marc Van Audenrode
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:00 The Self-Sufficiency Project
· Introduction to the Design of the SSP - John Greenwood
· A test of a strategy to make work pay - Charles Michalopoulos
· Preliminary results of combining a financial incentive with employment services - Phil Robbins
Discussant: Isaac Rischall
14:00 - 15:00 The Self-Sufficiency Project (continued)
· An experimental test of entry effects in a financial incentive program -Gordon Berlin
· The SSP's impacts with a group of new applicant for welfare - David Card
Discussant: Arthur Sweetman
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Panel Discussion: What have we Learned from the SSP?
· Allen Zeesman, Bill Warburton, and Reuben Ford
9:00 - 9:45 Nova Scotia School-to-Work Project
· Diane Looker
Discussant: Doug Giddings
9:45 - 10:30 Using the social economy to foster employability - a proposal -
· Jean-Pierre Voyer
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Methodological Issues
· Methodological issues in social experiments - Jeffrey Smith
· Can observational studies give the same results as random assignment? Results from Canada's largest random assignment study - Bill Warburton - Alice Nakamura - Emi Nakamura
12:30 Closure