ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses information taken from the evaluation reports concerning the outcome measures and programme and participant characteristics and provides a general description of the welfare-to-work programmes. Welfare-to-work programmes typically combine a variety of services and incentives, each of which is intended to help move recipients back into work and off the welfare rolls. The chapter provides an equal weight to all programme observations, rather than adjusting for the programme's sample size relative to the overall pooled sample size. The singularly greatest contribution of the evaluated welfare-to-work programmes was to increase participation in job search activities by 22 percentage points. Some of the variation is almost certainly due to differences in the evaluated programmes, but some may also be due to differences among the population groups studied, and socio-economic conditions in the sites in which the programmes were located. The gross participation rates suggest that welfare-to-work programmes typically provide both labour market attachment activities and human resource development.
