While many Americans dream about starting their own businesses, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from moving forward. Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) was designed to provide assessment, training, and technical assistance to individuals...

Personal Reemployment Accounts (PRAs) provide additional assistance and incentives to unemployed workers who are likely to exhaust their unemployment insurance by offering maximum flexibility in seeking the services that will best help them prepare for and find a new job. Drawing on a variety of...

This interim report from Mathematica's longitudinal study presents 18 months of follow-up data on families whose cases closed in early 1998 because of a time limit. Notes that nearly all parents worked at some point during the follow-up period, and most worked for more than half of it. Wages...

This book chapter examines how firms behaved with respect to employment-based health insurance before Affordable Care Act deliberations and uses that behavior to predict the changes that might occur when the legislative requirements become fully implemented.

The idea of people with disabilities working is becoming the expectation and goal of public policy in the U.S. as well as in many other countries. This research brief from Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy profiles the U.K.’s Pathways to Work program which offers employment...

Roughly 21 million women (15.6 percent of all women) in the U.S. have a disability. For women ages 21 to 64—the years during which people are most likely to be employed—about 13 percent, or 11 million, have a disability. This article describes some of the data available about women...

This report uses annual Social Security earnings data employers report to the Internal Revenue Service, as well as quarterly wage records employers report to state unemployment insurance agencies, to examine impacts on earnings in years five to seven after random assignment. The research team...

Promoting employment for people with disabilities is an important policy objective for the nation. The first brief in a new series on the Medicaid Buy-In program, which extends Medicaid coverage to people with disabilities who go to work so they do not lose health care, examines participant...

While many Americans dream about starting their own business and have the motivation to do so, lack of business expertise and access to credit often prevent them from realizing their dreams. Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) was implemented to help emerging entrepreneurs...