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This brief reviews relevant research about employer engagement, describes challenges in engaging employers, and synthesizes key elements that support business partnerships with workforce system programs. Partnership elements that may be used to...

W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research compiled this collection of chapters and case studies that push for potentially transformative workforce development and education strategies designed to improve opportunities for job seekers,...

Overview This report contains 3 randomized control trial evaluations of non-government job training programs that partner with local employers to give their participants a pipeline to a stable, well-paying job.

Overview This is an evaluation of New York City’s Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE) program, a large-scale welfare-to-work program for recipients with work-limiting medical or mental health conditions. 

Description: The National Association of State Workforce Agencies’ (NASWA) Center for Employment Security Education and Research released this report summarizing the current research and analysis capacity of its member state workforce agencies. In...

Description: This study analyzed the net impact and cost-benefit of the Washington state Unemployment Insurance Training Benefits Program

Description: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and a local American Job Center in Michigan tested whether a series of short email messages could increase the percentage of Unemployment Insurance recipients who scheduled, attended, and completed a...

The Research and Evaluation Notes (R&E Notes) publication is a brief, curated compilation of the latest research and evaluation information, evidence-based promising practices, and learning opportunities to improve workforce program outcomes....

This report describes the implementation of Gateway to College. It has two main goals. The first is to provide an in-depth account of the Gateway to College model and to more precisely define the youth population the program serves.  The second...

Examines state and federal workers’ compensation program changes in the 1990s and their effects on the disability insurance (DI) application rate.