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Download full textMiller, Cynthia; Deitch, Victoria; Hill, Aaron – MDRC, 2010
Between 2000 and 2003, the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project identified and implemented a diverse set of innovative models designed to promote employment stability and wage or earnings progression among low-income individuals, mostly current or former welfare recipients. The project's goal was to determine which strategies could…
Descriptors: Wages, Employment, Models, Welfare Recipients
Molina, Frieda; Cheng, Wan-Lae; Hendra, Richard – MDRC, 2008
The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project is the most comprehensive effort thus far to ascertain which approaches help welfare recipients and other low-income people stay steadily employed and advance in their jobs. Launched in 1999 and slated to end in 2009, the ERA project encompasses more than a dozen demonstration programs and…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness, Welfare Recipients, Labor Turnover
Scrivener, Susan; Azurdia, Gilda; Page, Jocelyn – MDRC, 2005
Although much is known about how to help welfare recipients find jobs, little is known about how to help them and other low-wage workers keep jobs or advance in the labor market. This report presents information on the effectiveness of a program in South Carolina that aimed to help former welfare recipients obtain jobs, work more steadily, and…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Human Services, Welfare Recipients, Program Effectiveness
