1. Special Issue on ‘Long term unemployment and social assistance’: Introduction

   • Tito Boeri
   • Andreas Wörgötter

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 3

2. Transition from unemployment benefits to social assistance in seven European OECD countries

   • Hans Hansen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 30

3. Long-term unemployment and short-term unemployment benefits: The changing nature of non-employment subsidies in Central and Eastern Europe

   • Tito Boeri
   • Scott Edwards

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 54

4. Long-term unemployment, unemployment benefits and social assistance: The Polish experience

   • Marek Góra
   • Christoph M. Schmidt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 85

5. Work incentive and other effects of social assistance and unemployment benefit policy in the Czech Republic

   • Michaela Erbenova
   • Vit Sorm
   • Katherine Terrell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 120

6. Work incentives and other effects of the transition to social assistance: Evidence from the Slovak Republic

   • Martina Lubyova
   • Jan van Ours

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 153

7. Unemployment assistance in Hungary

   • John Micklewright
   • Gyula Nagy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 175

8. Transition from cash benefits to work: The case of Slovenia

   • Milan Vodopivec

   OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 202

9. Long-term unemployment, social assistance and labor market policies in Romania

   • John S. Earle
   • Catalin Pauna

   OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 235

10. Work incentives and other effects of the transition to social assistance in the transition economies: Evidence from Bulgaria

    • Derek C. Jones
    • Mariana M. Kotzeva

    OriginalPaper Pages: 237 - 261