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Issue: 2023-25
Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography of ETA- and CEO-Sponsored Studies 2012–2016
DescriptionThe U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment and Training Administration (ETA) sponsors numerous research studies, evaluations, pilots, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics relevant to the agency’s mission. This annotated bibliography provides abstracts of impact evaluations and other systematic analyses funded by ETA and published on ETA’s Research Publication Database or DOL’s Chief …
PopulationAdult, Dislocated Workers, Farm Workers, High-School Dropouts/Court-Involved Youth, Incarcerated or Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, Multi-Barrier Populations, Older Workers, Unemployed Individuals, Unemployed Workers, Veterans and Spouses, Youth, Men/Women, Migrant and Seasonal Workers
ProgramAdult Program, American Job Centers, Apprenticeship, Career and Technical Education (CTE), Dislocated Worker Program, Foreign Labor Certification, Job Corps, National Farmworker Jobs Program, Other Competitive Grants, Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments, Re-integration of Ex-Offender, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Unemployment Insurance, Youth Program, YouthBuild
Research MethodologyAnnotated Bibliography
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Issue: 2023-26
Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography 2016-2020
DescriptionThe U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA), and Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) sponsor numerous research studies, evaluations, pilots, and demonstrations on a broad range of topics relevant to the agency’s mission. This annotated bibliography follows the Bos et al. (2017) “Employment Research in Brief: An Annotated Bibliography of ETA- and CEO-Sponsored …
PopulationAdult, Dislocated Workers, Farm Workers, High-School Dropouts/Court-Involved Youth, Incarcerated or Formerly Incarcerated Individuals, Individuals with Disabilities, Multi-Barrier Populations, Native American, New Entrants/Reentrants, Older Workers, Unemployed Individuals, Unemployed Workers, Veterans and Spouses, Youth
ProgramAdult Program, American Job Centers, Career and Technical Education (CTE), Dislocated Worker Program, H1-B Grant Programs, Job Corps, Native American Employment and Training, Other Competitive Grants, Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessments, Re-integration of Ex-Offender, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Unemployment Insurance, Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), Youth Program, YouthBuild
Research MethodologyAnnotated Bibliography
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Issue: 2022-32
Workforce Programs Serving Older Workers and Other Populations with Employment Barriers: Older Workers Implementation and Descriptive Study
DescriptionThis report provides demographic and economic information on older workers as well as a targeted review of the literature covering the workforce challenges facing older workers, the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on them, the employment and training programs serving them, and knowledge gaps regarding various programs. The report was developed as part of a larger research initiative, the Older …
PopulationAdult, Dislocated Workers, Individuals with Disabilities
ProgramSenior Community Service Employment (SCSEP), Trade Adjustment Assistance, American Job Centers
Research MethodologyLiterature Review, Quantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-09
Does Occupational Training by the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program Really Help Reemployment?: Success Measured as Matching
DescriptionAs international trade continues to expand, more workers lose their jobs to low wage workers in developing countries. The Trade Adjustment Assistance Program is a dislocated worker program established to help their reemployment by providing occupational skills training and reemployment services. This paper measures the success of training provision as the match between the occupations of training …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-06
Early Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Workforce Development and Unemployment Insurance Provisions Interim Report
DescriptionThe Employment and Training Administration (ETA) received economic stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) that were intended to provide jobs, expand access to Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, employment services, and retrain millions of unemployed workers during the ""Great Recession". Programs that received additional allocated funds …
PopulationAdult
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance, Unemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2010-06
National Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program
DescriptionAs part of the National Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program, this report provides information about the characteristics and early program experiences of workers eligible for TAA under the 2002 Trade Act. Information was collected via a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of workers in 26 states (covering 90 percent of TAA eligible workers). Interviews …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
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Issue: 2010-05
Implementing Efficiency Measures for Employment and Training Programs Final Report
DescriptionIn 2007, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) required the development of efficiency measures for all federal government programs as part of the effort to improve federal government program performance. As a result of Program Assessment Rating Tool reviews, OMB asked the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor to develop and implementing an outcome-based …
PopulationAdult, Native American, Youth
ProgramApprenticeship, National Farmworker Jobs Program, Senior Community Service Employment (SCSEP), Trade Adjustment Assistance, Wagner-Peyser/Employment Service (ES) Program, Dislocated Worker Program, National Emergency Grants (NEG) Program, Youth Program, Adult Program
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Issue: 2009-17
Rapid Response and TAA
DescriptionThis report, based on site visits to 48 One-Stop Career Centers in 23 states conducted from mid-2004 to mid-2006, is part of a longer-term project to conduct a national, net-impact evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program.   The report summarizes findings on the relationship between TAA and Rapid Response, both of which are designed to assist dislocated workers.   Under Rapid …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
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Issue: 2009-16
Linkages Between TAA, One-Stop Career Center Partners, and Economic Development Agencies
DescriptionThis report is based on site visits conducted from mid-2005 to mid-2006 to 41 One-Stop Career Centers and the state-level offices in the 19 states in which the centers are located.   The report, part of a longer-term project to conduct a national net-impact evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, describes the linkages that the TAA program has established with its One-Stop …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
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Issue: 2009-15
Assessment, Case Management, and Post-Training Assistance for TAA Participants
DescriptionThis report is based on data from site visits conducted to 48 local One-Stop Career Centers in 2004 and from mid-2005 through the summer of 2006 as well as to state-level offices of 23 states in which the centers are located. The report is part of a longer-term project to conduct a national net-impact evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program. This report examines services …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance