Lessons Learned from Public Workforce Program Experiments

Authors

Stephen A. Wandner Editor, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ResearchFollow

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Series

WE focus series

DOI

10.17848/9780880996310

Abstract

This book chronicles many of the most important experiments and the key lessons derived from the evaluations of both existing large-scale public workforce programs and the development of new interventions—including low-cost experiments based on behavioral science methods.

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Contents

1. Introduction / Stephen A. Wandner

2. How On-the-Ground Realities Shape the Design, Implementation, and Results of Experimental Studies / Irma Perez-Johnson, Annalisa Mastri, and Samia Amin

3. An Example of a Low-Cost Intervention to Target Services to Participants of a Local Welfare-to-Work Program / Randall W. Eberts

4. Experimental Evaluations and the Evolution of the Reemployment and Eligibility Assessment Program / Jacob M. Benus

5. Incentive Experiments in Unemployment Insurance / Christopher J. O’Leary

ISBN

9780880996303 (pbk.) ; 9780880996310 (ebook)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Unemployment insurance; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT; Public training programs; Welfare to work