Douglas J. Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis and logic models, program evaluation, and performance management. He is a former president of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, where he also directed its program on international policy exchanges, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Press International Policy Exchange series.Douglas M. Call is the deputy director of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy's Center for International Policy Exchanges and Welfare Reform Academy. He is also a lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, teaching graduate courses on program evaluation and poverty measurement and alleviation, and supervising student projects in the capstone course.

• About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction: European and US Experiences with Labor Activation Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call Chapter 2: Activation and Employment Support Policies for Stronger and Fairer Labor MarketsStefano Scarpetta Chapter 3: Early Activation in European Union Unemployment Insurance ProgramsMárton Csillag and Anna Adamecz-Völgyi Chapter 4: Unemployment Insurance after the Great RecessionJacob Alex Klerman Chapter 5: Activation in Eight European Social Assistance ProgramsIvar Lødemel and Amílcar Moreira Chapter 6: Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?Matthew Weidinger Chapter 7: Five Decades of Disability Benefit Policies in Five OECD CountriesDuncan McVicar, Roger Wilkins, and Nicolas R. Ziebarth Chapter 8: Lessons for US Disability Policy from Other OECD CountriesRichard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly Chapter 9: Activation in Public Employment Services in EuropeJ. Timo Weishaupt, Henning Jørgensen, and Alexander Nunn Chapter 10: Workforce Development Services in the United StatesCarolyn J. Heinrich Chapter 11: Whither Activation Policies? Reflections for the FutureJohn P. Martin Chapter 12: Lessons for Labor Policy in the Aftermath of the Great RecessionEdward Montgomery Index

Douglas J. Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis and logic models, program evaluation, and performance management. He is a former president of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, where he also directed its program on international policy exchanges, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Press International Policy Exchange series.Douglas M. Call is the deputy director of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy's Center for International Policy Exchanges and Welfare Reform Academy. He is also a lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, teaching graduate courses on program evaluation and poverty measurement and alleviation, and supervising student projects in the capstone course.

• About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction: European and US Experiences with Labor Activation Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call Chapter 2: Activation and Employment Support Policies for Stronger and Fairer Labor MarketsStefano Scarpetta Chapter 3: Early Activation in European Union Unemployment Insurance ProgramsMárton Csillag and Anna Adamecz-Völgyi Chapter 4: Unemployment Insurance after the Great RecessionJacob Alex Klerman Chapter 5: Activation in Eight European Social Assistance ProgramsIvar Lødemel and Amílcar Moreira Chapter 6: Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?Matthew Weidinger Chapter 7: Five Decades of Disability Benefit Policies in Five OECD CountriesDuncan McVicar, Roger Wilkins, and Nicolas R. Ziebarth Chapter 8: Lessons for US Disability Policy from Other OECD CountriesRichard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly Chapter 9: Activation in Public Employment Services in EuropeJ. Timo Weishaupt, Henning Jørgensen, and Alexander Nunn Chapter 10: Workforce Development Services in the United StatesCarolyn J. Heinrich Chapter 11: Whither Activation Policies? Reflections for the FutureJohn P. Martin Chapter 12: Lessons for Labor Policy in the Aftermath of the Great RecessionEdward Montgomery Index

Douglas J. Besharov is a professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, where he teaches courses on poverty, welfare, children and families, policy analysis and logic models, program evaluation, and performance management. He is a former president of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, where he also directed its program on international policy exchanges, and co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford University Press International Policy Exchange series.Douglas M. Call is the deputy director of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy's Center for International Policy Exchanges and Welfare Reform Academy. He is also a lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, teaching graduate courses on program evaluation and poverty measurement and alleviation, and supervising student projects in the capstone course.

• About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction: European and US Experiences with Labor Activation Douglas J. Besharov and Douglas M. Call Chapter 2: Activation and Employment Support Policies for Stronger and Fairer Labor MarketsStefano Scarpetta Chapter 3: Early Activation in European Union Unemployment Insurance ProgramsMárton Csillag and Anna Adamecz-Völgyi Chapter 4: Unemployment Insurance after the Great RecessionJacob Alex Klerman Chapter 5: Activation in Eight European Social Assistance ProgramsIvar Lødemel and Amílcar Moreira Chapter 6: Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?Matthew Weidinger Chapter 7: Five Decades of Disability Benefit Policies in Five OECD CountriesDuncan McVicar, Roger Wilkins, and Nicolas R. Ziebarth Chapter 8: Lessons for US Disability Policy from Other OECD CountriesRichard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly Chapter 9: Activation in Public Employment Services in EuropeJ. Timo Weishaupt, Henning Jørgensen, and Alexander Nunn Chapter 10: Workforce Development Services in the United StatesCarolyn J. Heinrich Chapter 11: Whither Activation Policies? Reflections for the FutureJohn P. Martin Chapter 12: Lessons for Labor Policy in the Aftermath of the Great RecessionEdward Montgomery Index