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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments (RESEA) Library

To help practitioners find high-quality research to support RESEA program development and improvement, CLEAR has catalogued RESEA studies and assigned evidence ratings to indicate RESEA intervention effectiveness.

Here you can find which interventions have received high or moderate ratings, based on findings from rigorous causal impact studies. You can also delve into summaries of individual studies of interventions that you are interested in, to learn details such as the design of those interventions, the contexts where interventions were studied, the outcomes that were examined, and the sizes of impacts that were found. Those details can help you apply evidence to decisions regarding your own programs.

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Adding subsequent RESEA meetings appears to increase program impact, with indications that assistance provided and the requirement to attend are contributors to impacts.

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Intervention: More stringent work search requirements

Potentially Promising Intervention Evidence Rating

Requiring Unemployment Insurance recipients to register with the Public Employment Service (Director & Englander 1988)

Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis

Causal Evidence Rating: Low Causal Evidence

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Intervention: JSA services

Moderate Intervention Evidence Rating

Back to work: Testing reemployment services for displaced workers (Bloom 1990)

Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis

Causal Evidence Rating: Moderate Causal Evidence

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Intervention: Profiling

Moderate Intervention Evidence Rating

The labor market effects of U.S. reemployment programs during the Great Recession (Michaelides & Mueser, 2016)

Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis

Causal Evidence Rating: High Causal Evidence

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Intervention: Less stringent work search requirements

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The effects of eliminating the work search requirement on job match quality and other long-term employment outcomes. (Lachowska et al. 2015)

Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis

Causal Evidence Rating: High Causal Evidence

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Intervention: More stringent work search requirements

Potentially Promising Intervention Evidence Rating

Effects of the unemployment insurance work test on long-term employment outcomes. (Lachowska et al. 2016)

Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis

Causal Evidence Rating: High Causal Evidence

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Intervention: More stringent work search requirements

Potentially Promising Intervention Evidence Rating

Job rationing in recessions: evidence from work-search requirements. (Toohey 2015)

Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis

Causal Evidence Rating: Low Causal Evidence

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Intervention: Washington State Reemployment Appointment Scheduler

Potentially Promising Intervention Evidence Rating

Net impact evaluation of the Reemployment Appointment Scheduler (RAS) for the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA) program (Klein, Kondratjeva, & Lee, 2022)

Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis

Causal Evidence Rating: Low Causal Evidence

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Intervention: the Reemployment Services Eligibility Assessment program in Nebraska

Potentially Promising Intervention Evidence Rating

Nebraska RESEA Evaluation Report (Hoffman et al., 2022)

Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis

Causal Evidence Rating: Low Causal Evidence

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