This report presents an evaluation of web-based labor exchange platforms with advanced matching technology to connect candidates with opportunities, with the intent of selecting a finalist platform to be piloted in Minnesota with RealTime Talent partners. This report summarizes the traits and functionality of 11 platforms for posting jobs online, focusing on their matching capabilities, innovative approaches, and respective costs. Eight companies agreed to participate in a full interview and rubric-based evaluation, which included a function test of each live site and a guided demo from job-seeker and employer perspectives.

This paper systematically reviews and summarizes 40 rigorous evaluations of SME support services in low and middle-income countries and presents evidence to help inform policy debates.

The purpose of this paper is to frame the current issues around measuring employment and labor market outcomes in the context of workforce development programs.

This brief summarizes the impact of a job search planning intervention on job search efficiency and employment among unemployed youth in South Africa. The planning intervention improved participants’ job search intensity and efficiency, leading to higher rates of employment.

This report is an example of a randomized controlled trial baseline report from 2014 in Morocco. The research explores the impact of employability, finance, and entrepreneurship training combined with job placement support to better understand young people’s transitions from school to the labor market.

Using examples from the Ninaweza youth livelihoods program in Kenya, this note discusses the importance of impact evaluations, outlines proper methodology and design, talks about where such evaluations are most appropriate and gives key recommendations for their implementation.

This paper provides information on the research and evaluation of workforce development programming for youth. The paper presents a framework for guiding the interpretation of the impact that workforce development has on youth outcomes. It also provides the latest evidence of what works in achieving these outcomes, along with a discussion of gap areas in need of further investigation.

This guideline builds on the GTZ’s general “Results-based Monitoring – Guidelines for Technical Cooperation Projects and Programmes”. These general guidelines describe seven steps for results-based monitoring.

This study examines whether entrepreneurial activity can be taught, in particular whether business training can lead to increasing numbers of businesses started or expanded. This question is answered by analyzing the results of business training programs that TechnoServe held in Central America during 2002–05.

This toolkit will help practitioners who have limited or no knowledge about impact evaluation or quantitative research methods. This guide offers an accessible introduction to the topic of monitoring and evaluation and its practical application in the youth livelihood field.

The guide has been designed to support the design, administration, monitoring and evaluation of programmes targeting the disadvantaged unemployed.

This database search, lists about 35 youth employment related evaluations from J-PAL affiliated professors.

This toolkit curates the latest USAID guidance, tools, and templates for initiating, planning, managing, and learning from evaluations in any phase of the process.

By highlighting best practices and providing lessons on data collection, the toolkit serves as a resource for learning and accountability. It has lessons from more than a dozen non-profits and social businesses on how to successfully monitor and evaluate social programs.

The Toolkit is organized to inform users how to monitor development interventions. It begins with a focus on monitoring within USAID’s Program Cycle but expands to provide more general information and best practices in the field of monitoring.