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Synthesis Report: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning Synthesis
Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Findings:
Sectoral training and employment programs that offered specific pathways for occupational training and other career supports improved education and training outcomes, and some improved employment or earnings.
Subsidized and transitional employment improved employment and earnings in the short term.
Registered Apprenticeship (RA) improved employment and earnings, but the evidence base is small.
WIA training services had more favorable impacts on employment and earnings outcomes in the long term than in the short term, though these outcomes were mixed overall.
Roder, A., & Elliott, M. (2014). Sustained gains: Year Up’s continued impacts on young adults’ earnings. New York: Economic Mobility Corporation.
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Burt, M. (2007). Evaluation of LA’s HOPE: Ending chronic homelessness through employment and housing—Final report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Labor.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
- 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
Hollenbeck, K., & Huang, W-J. (2008). Workforce program performance indicators for the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Upjohn Institute Technical Report No. 08-024). Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. [DBVI]
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Hollenbeck, K., & Huang, W-J. (2008). Workforce program performance indicators for the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Upjohn Institute Technical Report No. 08-024). Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. [DRS]
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:- Gardiner, K., & Juras, R. (2019). PACE Cross-Program Implementation and Impact Study Findings (Report No. 2019-32). Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [Year Up]
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults, Opportunities for Youth
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: - Geckeler, C., Folsom, L., Hebbar, L., Mallett, J., Paprocki, A., & Sarver, M. (2019). Final report for the impact evaluation of the Los Angeles Regional Initiative for Social Enterprise (LA:RISE) pilot program. Oakland, CA: Social Policy Research Associates.
Topic Area: Low-Income Adults
Study Type: Implementation Analysis
Hollenbeck, K., & Huang, W. (2006). Net impact and benefit-cost estimates of the workforce development system in Washington State. Upjohn Institute technical report no. TR06-020. Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. [Dept. of Services for the Blind]
Topic Area: Registered Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Kim, S., LeBlanc, A., Morris, P., Simon, G., & Walter, J. (2011). Working toward Wellness: Telephone care management for Medicaid recipients with depression, thirty-six months after random assignment. OPRE report 2011-21. 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
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:
