Using Incentives to Promote Job Retention and Advancement Guidance from the Performance Improvement Industry

Drawing on the industry that designs incentives for private-sector corporations, this paper explores incentives as a potential strategy for promoting job retention and advancement among disadvantaged workers. The paper, which provides a step-by-step process for designing incentive programs to promote behaviors associated with job retention and advancement, can help employment and training programs evaluate whether an incentive program could help achieve their goals.