Panel:
New Findings on Subsidized Employment
(Employment and Training Programs)
Friday, November 4, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Jay (Washington Hilton)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
Panel Organizers: Dan Bloom, MDRC
Panel Chairs: Dan Bloom, MDRC
Discussants: Cliff Johnson, National League of Cities
For decades, policymakers have searched for models that can improve employment outcomes for individuals considered "hard to employ" - those with low levels of education, limited work experience, and other disadvantages. One approach that has been implemented and tested fairly extensively is subsidized employment. Subsidized employment programs use public funds to support or create jobs for people who cannot find employment in the regular labor market.
This panel will present new results from a series of rigorous, random assignment evaluations of subsidized employment programs conducted under two large federally funded projects, the Department of Labor's Enhanced Transitional Jobs Demonstration (ETJD) and the Department of Health and Human Service's Subsidized and Transitional Employment Demonstration (STED). Between them, the two projects are testing more than 10 distinct approaches targeting a variety of populations, including people to returning to the community from prison, low-income noncustodial parents who owe child support, TANF recipients, and youth. The new results include detailed information about program design and implementation, and impacts on key outcomes over a 12-month follow-up period.
