This paper presents the final economic results of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme. ERA's distinctive combination of post-employment advisory support and financial incentives was designed to help low-income individuals who entered work sustain employment and advance in...

This report presents new findings from Britain’s Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration programme, launched in autumn 2003. ERA was designed to test the effectiveness of a programme to improve the labour market prospects of low-paid workers and long-term unemployed people....

This report presents a preliminary cost analysis of Britain's Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration, which has been carefully evaluated through a large-scale randomized control trial. Aimed at helping low-income individuals sustain employment and progress in work, ERA is...

This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of Britain's Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) demonstration, which was evaluated though the first large-scale randomized control trial in the United Kingdom (over 16,000 people were randomly assigned). Aimed at helping three separate target...

Background: Even a well-designed randomized control trial (RCT) study can produce ambiguous results. This article highlights a case in which full sample results from a large-scale RCT in the United Kingdom differ from results for a subsample of survey respondents.Objectives: Our objective is to...

In this paper we explore the responses of a group of long-term unemployed men to chronic labour market insecurity and ‘active’ labour market policies promoting individual responsibility for employability. We draw from an evaluation of a recent pilot scheme: the UK Employment Retention and...

The methodological review is the second part of the evaluation research commissioned by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) in 2005 to help in the preparation of the evaluation of the Working for Families (WFF) programme. This review enumerates the key evaluation questions identified by MSD...