Evidence Snapshot: Work Experience and Work-Based Learning

Work experience and work-based learning are two related strategies for helping people with low incomes improve employment and earnings outcomes. Work experience and work-based learning could include paid or unpaid work or learning experiences in a work setting. This Evidence Snapshot brief summarizes what rigorous research tells us about seven interventions that used work experience and work-based learning and their impacts on earnings, employment, the receipt of public benefits, and education and training. The brief helps TANF administrators, policymakers, researchers, and the general public apply this evidence of program effectiveness to their context and questions that matter to them.