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Published Date: July 01, 2019
Resource Topic: Employment and Training

Appendices to the Self-Employment Training (SET) Pilot Program Evaluation Final Implementation Report that include SET program design, evaluation, findings from analysis of set baseline application, findings from analysis of MIS data, analysis of survey and interview data on implementation, and analysis of interview data on participant perspectives on SET.

Published Date: July 01, 2019
Resource Topic: Employment and Training

In an effort to spur regional economic growth, five Federal agencies collaborated to award grants in 2011 and 2012 to 30 self-identified regional innovation clusters focused on specific high-growth sectors through the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge (JIAC) and Advanced Manufacturing JIAC (AM-JIAC) initiatives. Participating agencies included the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA); U.S.

Published Date: June 15, 2019

In 2015, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) and funded contractor IMPAQ International to conduct the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) Livelihoods Services Evaluation. The mixed methods evaluation aims to assess whether evidence supports the OCFT theory of change and gather evidence on the outcomes of four different types of livelihoods services projects, particularly with respect to reducing child and/or forced labor, to inform future project design.

Published Date: June 01, 2019
Resource Type: Video

This presentation provides labor force participation, unemployment, and educational differences between women veterans, male veterans, and nonveterans of either gender, using the 2018 annual average Current Population Survey data. In 2018, the unemployment rates among these four populations were not statistically different.

Published Date: June 01, 2019

The report focuses on the results of the evaluation phase of the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) Livelihoods Services Evaluation study and is organized to highlight the key findings across projects. Section 2 provides background on OCFT’s efforts to combat child and forced labor and an overview of the research questions addressed in this study. Section 3 provides details on the mixed-methods research methodology used for this evaluation.

Published Date: June 01, 2019
Resource Type: Impact Evaluation
Resource Topic: Employment and Training

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (DOL/ETA), the Young Parents Demonstration (YPD) was a federal grant initiative to enhance the Department’s existing programs to better serve at-risk and disadvantaged young parents and expectant parents, ages 16 to 24. Through two grant competitions, DOL/ETA issued three rounds of awards to 17 organizations, including both local public workforce agencies and non-profit community-based organizations.

Published Date: June 01, 2019
Resource Type: Impact Evaluation
Resource Topic: Employment and Training

The Young Parents Demonstration (YPD) is a federal grant initiative, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (DOL/ETA) and Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) to test the effectiveness of enhanced services in improving educational and employment outcomes for at-risk parenting and expectant youth. The focus of this report is on the 13 YPD Rounds I and II grants awarded in June 2009.

Published Date: June 01, 2019
Resource Type: Impact Evaluation
Resource Topic: Employment and Training

The Young Parents Demonstration (YPD) was a federal grant initiative, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (DOL/ETA) and Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) to test the effectiveness of enhanced services in improving educational and employment outcomes for at-risk parenting and expectant youth. The focus of this final report is on the four Round III community-based organizations awarded three-year grants in June 2011 totaling $5.5 million.

Published Date: June 01, 2019
Resource Topic: Data, Methods, and Tools

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), publishes the Form 5500 Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan (Form 5500) and the Short Form Annual Return/Report of Small Employee Benefit Plan (Form 5500-SF).

Published Date: April 01, 2019

The paper studies the short- and long-run effects of each U.S. recession since 1973 on local economic activity. Researchers analyze how economic activity evolves across local areas that are differentially affected by national recessions. For each recession, researchers find that employment, population, employment-to-population ratios, and earnings per capita experience persistently declines for at least a decade after recession’s end.