This report provides initial findings from Mathematica’s evaluation, based on information about grantees’ activities collected from interviews with staff at workforce investment boards, intermediaries, One-Stop Career Centers, and FBCOs during the first-quarter of 2005. It describes...

Laws in most West European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...

This report provides initial findings from Mathematica’s evaluation, based on information about grantees’ activities collected from interviews with staff at workforce investment boards, intermediaries, One-Stop Career Centers, and FBCOs during the first-quarter of 2005. It...