DWP runs a range of employment programmes. The department has regularly undertaken comparative cost benefit analyses (CBAs) of large numbers of these programmes. These exercises estimate the absolute and relative cost effectiveness of the various interventions. The department also frequently...

This article describes a cost analysis of an employment programme available to people claiming incapacity benefits in the UK. The NDDP was delivered locally by contracted providers called ‘job brokers’. The cost analysis found great variation among job brokers’ costs and profitability,...

This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of Britain's Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration, which was evaluated though the first large-scale randomized control trial in the United Kingdom (over 16,000 people were randomly assigned). Aimed at helping three separate target...

This report presents the final results on the implementation, impacts, costs, and economic benefits of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme. ERA's distinctive combination of post-employment advisory support and financial incentives was designed to help low-income...