Glossary

Monetary support that provides a pre-established payment, usually in the form of cash, with no conditions for receiving the payment and no expectations attached for how the money is to be used. Unconditional cash transfers may be an intervention's primary service.

People who do not have a paid job and who are either actively seeking employment or not in the labor force. 

Work that is unpaid, such as community service jobs. May be used for participants who have limited to no work history. Often short-term, these placements are typically designed to orient participants to entry-level occupations and to provide exposure to workplace culture. Unpaid work experience/internships may be an intervention's primary service.

Pathways describes studies as having been conducted in urban only settings if the study authors reported that the study was conducted in an urban location or in multiple locations, all of which were urban. This typically means that they were conducted in cities or adjacent areas with high population density and where residential and commercial buildings are adjacent to one another. Interventions are listed as having been tested in urban only settings if at least one study of the intervention was in an urban only setting.