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Issue: 2007-05
The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Final Impacts
DescriptionFrom July 1995 through September 2001, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration and the Ford Foundation operated the Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP) Demonstration. The demonstration was designed to help at-risk high-school-age youth obtain the education and training needed for success in the labor market. The primary objectives of the demonstration were to increase …
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Issue: 2007-04
Five-Year Research, Demonstration and Evaluation Strategic Plan for 2007-2012
DescriptionSection 171 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 requires the Secretary of Labor to submit, every two years, a plan that describes demonstration and pilot, multiservice, research and multistate projects that focus on priorities for the Department of Labor concerning employment and training for the five-year period following the plan.   The plan provides a strategic vision for research …
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Issue: 2007-03
Adult Learners in Higher Education: Barriers to Success and Strategies to Improve Results
DescriptionThe report synthesizes the research literature on the challenges facing adult learners in higher education today and on emerging strategies for increasing the number of adults over 24 who earn college credentials and degrees. The synthesis is meant to provide perspectives on key issues facing adult learners and the institutions that serve them. Powerful economic, demographic, and market trends …
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Issue: 2007-02
Evaluation of the Military Base National Emergency Grants
DescriptionThe U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) awards National Emergency Grants (NEGs) to states or local areas in need of supplemental resources to provide workforce development services. NEGs are provided in response to economic shocks such as mass layoffs, natural disasters or base realignment and closures. NEGs temporarily increase the capacity of state or local areas to provide workforce development …
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Issue: 2007-01
Managing Customers’ Training Choices: Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment - Final Report
DescriptionA central goal of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) is to empower customers to improve their employment opportunities by giving them meaningful choices about the types of services they receive. The requirement that individual training accounts (ITAs) be used to fund training is one of the ways that WIA addresses the Act’s goal. A major challenge faced by workforce investment boards in …
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Issue: 2006-13
An Assessment of the Low-Wage Worker Retention and Advancement Demonstration Project
DescriptionThe U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration awarded grants to the Oregon Employment Department in 2002 and the California Employment Development Department in 2003 for the Low-Wage Worker Retention and Advancement Demonstration Project.   The evaluation of the grants investigated labor market approaches and service interventions that were developed to help low-wage …
PopulationAdult
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Issue: 2006-12
Evaluation of the WIA Performance Measurement System
DescriptionEnacted in 1998, the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) established a performance accountability system with the purpose of assessing the "…effectiveness of States and local areas in achieving continuous improvement of workforce investment activities."   The Evaluation of the WIA Performance Measurement System provides a comprehensive picture of the accountability system and examines the intended and …
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Issue: 2006-11
Evaluation of the Strengthening the Connections Between Unemployment Insurance and the One-Stop Delivery Systems Demonstration Projects in Wisconsin
DescriptionIn 2003, the Employment and Training Administration funded the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development for a three-year effort to implement the Strengthening the Connections Between Unemployment Insurance and One-Stop Delivery System Demonstration Project.   The demonstration sought to find innovative and effective approaches to facilitate linkages between the Wisconsin Unemployment …
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
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Issue: 2006-10
What’s Known About the Effects of Publicly-Funded Employment and Training Programs
DescriptionThis report was requested by the House Committee on Appropriations (House Report 108-188), which expressed interest in "the long-term effects of job training programs at the Department of Labor."   The report presents findings from an extensive body of literature that focuses on the effects of publicly-funded employment and training programs in the U.S. , primarily targeted to economically …
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Issue: 2006-09
Unemployment Insurance and Reemployment among Older Workers
DescriptionThis paper examines the adjustment to involuntary unemployment of older and prime age unemployment insurance (UI) claimants including patterns of reemployment, earnings, and employment stability following job loss.   The paper compares the experience of older workers aged 50 years and over with prime age workers aged 30 to 49 following a claim for UI benefits during the major labor market …
ProgramUnemployment Insurance