Examines a demonstration that tested three service strategies for promoting rapid re-employment and reduced UI spells: 1) structured job search assistance, 2) individualized job search assistance, and 3) individualized job search assistance with training.

Uses experimental data from the Job Search Assistance (JSA) Demonstration to test the performance of the regression methods applied to nonexperimental data in the evaluation of Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services. Compares the performance of regression methods to the performance of...

Examines a demonstration that tested three service strategies for promoting rapid re-employment and reduced UI spells: 1) structured job search assistance, 2) individualized job search assistance, and 3) individualized job search assistance with training.

This final report presents descriptive findings from Mathematica's study of enrollees during the two years after they entered a welfare-to-work program. Most were TANF recipients with significant barriers to employment; although most were employed at some time during the study, many faced...