This chapter describes the design and evaluation of a recently completed Work First pilot, funded by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor, which uses statistical methods to assess each customer’s employability and then uses the assessment to refer them to services. The pilot addresses the need for early identification of employment barriers faced by welfare...

The 2006 welfare reform legislation (Deficit Reduction Act of 2005) imposed more stringent work requirements and defined the amount of time cash assistance recipients are allowed to be exempted from the work requirement because of substance use treatment. As there is little empirical literature on the employability of substance users, it is difficult to know whether it is realistic to expect in...

Data Mining is best-known for its analytical and prediction capabilities. It is used in several areas such as fraud detection, predicting client behavior, money market behavior, bankruptcy prediction. It can also help in establishing an educational ecosystem, which discovers useful knowledge, and assist educators to take proactive decisions to boost student performance and employability. This p...

Building and maintaining employability is important for employees organizations in a changing world of work. Research considered work-related learning as an antecedent but provided ambiguous findings. We attribute this inconsistency to the multidimensionality constructs involved. Drawing on Conservation Resources Theory, we investigated links three different forms (i.e., informal, formal, self-...

Employability, which is commonly conceptualized as one’s ability to realize job opportunities within and between employers over time, has attracted considerable attention from diverse academic disciplines for decades. Research in these largely evolved independent of other fields, thus limiting the accumulation, validation, advancement, utility employability. Two central stakeholders much this r...

Purpose Drawing on a framework of Job Demands-Resources (JD-R), the purpose this paper is to conceptually develop and empirically validate moderated mediation model serious leisure workplace well-being. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected between December 2020 March 2021 using an online questionnaire. A total 225 completed questionnaires received from employees in India who grad...