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Glossary

Outcomes

  • Child labor

    Outcomes related to programs designed to reduce employment below the minimum age established in national legislation, though this varies from place to place and study to study.

  • Attitudes

    People’s opinions or feelings, particularly about their job, workplace, or employer, though this varies from study to study

  • Earnings and wages

    Payment a person receives in return for work performed during a certain period of time. Payment might be calculated in terms of a salary, commission, hourly wage rate, or piece rate basis, and people might receive payments on various schedules (such as weekly or every other week). 

  • Education and skills gains

    Increases in educational accomplishments or skills as reflected by years of schooling; accumulation of educational credits; or receipt of diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications

  • Employer benefits receipt

    The act of a person receiving nonwage compensation from employers such as paid leave, supplementary pay or bonuses, insurance benefits, and retirement benefits

  • Employment

    Working or obtaining work for pay from an employer, or for profit or fees in one’s own business

  • Health and safety

    The degree to which workers are free from illness or injury and are in a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in the workplace. This is maintained by identifying and controlling the risks arising from workplace hazards.

  • Public benefits receipt

    Receiving benefits from the government, such as unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Social Security, and Medicare

  • Training

    Programs and education to build knowledge and skills that prepare people for general employment or specific jobs or occupations

Target population

  • Target population

    The group of people served by the program or intervention under study