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Synthesis Report: Disability Employment Policy Research Synthesis
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Findings:
Many disability employment interventions improved participant employment and earnings outcomes but few improved education and training, health, or public benefits receipt outcomes.
Transition programs and support services interventions improved the widest variety of outcome categories.
VR interventions improved employment and earnings outcomes but the effectiveness differed by disability type and the types of services received.
Supported employment interventions improved employment and earnings outcomes but the evidence base is small.
The two high-rated studies on benefits offsets showed no significant impact on earnings outcomes and an unfavorable impact on public benefits receipt outcomes.
The only high-rated study of a mental and behavioral health supports intervention showed promise.
Studies assessing the PROMISE intervention across multiple time points reported changes in outcomes.
Studies assessing the same intervention across multiple sites reported differing results.
Redcross, C., Bloom, D., Jacobs, E., Manno, M., Muller-Ravett, S., Seefeldt, D., Yahner, J., Young Jr., A., & Zweig, J. (2010). Work after prison: One-year findings from the Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Jacobs, E. (2012). Returning to work after prison: Final results from the Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration. New York: MDRC.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Foley, K., Pallas, D., Forcehimes, A., Houck, J., Bogenschutz, M., Keyser-Marcus, L., & Svikis, D. (2010). Effect of job skills training on employment and job seeking behaviors in an American Indian substance abuse treatment sample. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 33(2010), 181-192.
Topic Area: Job Search Assistance
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Freedman, L., Elkin, S., & Millenky, M. (2019). Breaking Barriers: Implementing Individual Placement and Support in a workforce setting. MDRC.
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy, Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
- Akinola, O. A., & Doabler, C. T. (2022). Determinants of employment outcomes of transition-age youth with depressive disorders. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 56(1), 55-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JVR-211172
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: Reynolds, K. M., & Palatucci, J. S. (2012). Does trade adjustment assistance make a difference? Contemporary Economic Policy, 30(1), 43-59. [TAA versus no TAA]
Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Redcross, C., Barden, B., Bloom, D., Farrell, M. (2016). The Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration: Implementation and early impacts of the next generation of subsidized employment programs. Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults, Reentry
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
- Akinola, O. A., Horsman, E. N., & Dunkley, L. (2021). Correlates of vocational outcomes of youth with co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders: Evidence from a vocational rehabilitation program. The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counseling, 27(2), 110-121. https://doi.org/10.1017/jrc.2021.9
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: - Christensen, J., Hetherington, S., Daston, M., & Riehle, E. (2015). Longitudinal outcomes of Project SEARCH in upstate New York. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 42(3), 247-255. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/JVR-150746
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:
