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In 2014, law enforcement agencies in the United States made nearly 1 million juvenile arrests. Roughly half of the cases formally processed resulted in youth being adjudicated delinquent. Youth with convictions face lasting collateral consequences such as decreased access to education, employment opportunities, and certain social welfare benefits, like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), aside from more direct consequences like fines, fees, or imprisonment. Recognizing this, the U.S.
Children and Youth
Youth from low-income neighborhoods are at risk of poor outcomes throughout their lives. Many will drop out of school, which can lead to economic hardship and a greater chance of getting involved in the criminal justice system—making their lives even more difficult.
Children and Youth
The report summarizes the evidence on program models for serving justice-involved adults and young adults through connection to employment, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and case management services. The primary evidence of the effectiveness of these models comes from a review of experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations. Information about factors that may contribute to the successful implementation of the models comes from a review of outcome evaluations and implementation studies.
To make good decisions about investing in themselves—in the form of additional education or training—American workers need pertinent, reliable information on how the skills developed in a particular program translate into job opportunities and earnings potential. To provide this kind of information to the public, some states have created websites (termed scorecards) that allow users to browse education and training opportunities. These sites may provide information about the organizations offering education and training programs, program cost, and other information.
Secondary data analysis
Employment and Training
Adult workers
The Self-Employment Training (SET) pilot program was funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to test strategies for supporting dislocated workers interested in starting their own businesses. Unemployed and underemployed workers who proposed businesses in their fields of expertise were eligible to participate. SET participants received free access to 12 months of case management, customized training and technical assistance, and up to $1,000 in seed capital microgrant funds for business start-up costs.
Impact Evaluation
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.
Implementation Evaluation
Employment and Training
Appendices to the Self-Employment Training (SET) Pilot Program Evaluation Final Impact Report that include design and implementation of the set pilot program, impact study methodology, descriptive tables of study enrollee characteristics and site-level implementation measures, tables of results from main the impact analysis, and tables of results from sensitivity analyses for primary impact measures.
Impact Evaluation
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.
Employment and Training
Adult workers
The Self-Employment Training (SET) pilot program served unemployed and underemployed workers who proposed businesses in their fields of expertise. Participants had access to 12 months of case management services, customized training and technical assistance, and seed capital microgrants of up to $1,000. In two sites, SET participants who received unemployment insurance (UI) benefits could also get waivers exempting them from work search requirements.
Impact Evaluation
Employment and Training
As of January 2017, 1.9 million people remained in the ranks of the long-term unemployed (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2017). Starting a business, or self-employment, may offer a path for some of these people to return to work. The Self-Employment Training (SET) pilot program, which operated from 2013–2017, was funded by the Employment Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to test and evaluate strategies to support dislocated workers who wanted to start their own businesses.
Implementation Evaluation
Employment and Training
The Self-Employment Training (SET) pilot program served unemployed and underemployed workers who proposed businesses in their fields of expertise. Participants had access to 12 months of case management services, customized training and technical assistance, and seed capital microgrants of up to $1,000. In two sites, SET participants who received unemployment insurance (UI) benefits could also get waivers exempting them from work search requirements.
Impact Evaluation
Employment and Training
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).
Secondary data analysis
Data, Methods, and Tools
Adult workers
In June 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) contracted the implementation of the Feasibility Study and Evaluation of Non‐Traditional Occupation (NTO) Demonstrations. NTOs are occupations where specific populations and subpopulations are traditionally underrepresented. DOL defines underrepresented occupations as those in which individuals from one gender or minority group constitute less than 25% of the individuals employed in such occupations.
Employment and Training
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.
Outcome Evaluation
The report is a high-level review of the literature on strategies that increase opportunities for employment in Non-Traditional Occupations (NTOs) – defined by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) as occupations where specific populations and subpopulations are traditionally under-represented among the industry’s workforce. The specific focus of this review is to address an individual’s barriers to entering NTOs with strategies appropriate for delivery within the public workforce system.
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.
Impact Evaluation
Employment and Training
In June 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) contracted the implementation of the “Feasibility Study and Evaluation of the Non-Traditional Occupation (NTO) Demonstration.” NTOs for women generally offer higher wages and more opportunities for advancement compared to traditionally female dominated occupations.
Employment and Training
Researchers investigated how less-educated and less-experienced workers in Ohio benefit from registered apprenticeships. The researchers focused on 18-24 year old males. Regression results show that compared to individuals who have similar pre-program educational backgrounds but have little or no job training, apprentices have significantly higher earnings six years after program entry. The wage premiums for apprentices persist for at least nine years after program entry.
Using contemporary, nationally representative longitudinal survey data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, with sequence analysis and regression methods, this paper examines how various forms of criminal justice contact, including arrest and incarceration in jail and prison, are associated with labor market participation and a variety of employment outcomes, including weeks worked, wage, job satisfaction, and shift scheduling. Specifically, the paper examines the stability of labor market participation and employment over time using sequence analysis methods.
Secondary data analysis
Re-Entry
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.
Secondary data analysis
Adult workers
In 2017, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and funded contractor Summit Consulting to conduct An Analysis of Benefit Plans Auditors under the Administrative Data Research and Analysis portfolio of studies. The statistical analysis aims to analyze trends in employee benefit plan audit quality, particularly when plan administrators change certified public accountant (CPA) firms.
Secondary data analysis
Adult workers
In 2017, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and funded contractor Mathematica Policy Research to conduct the National Job Corps Study: 20-Year Follow-Up Study Using Tax Data under the Administrative Data Research and Analysis portfolio of studies. This administrative data analysis aims to assess the long-term employment and earnings outcomes for Job Corps participants in the 1990s using tax data through 2015.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) conducted a rigorous impact evaluation of the Job Corps program in the 1990s. The original National Job Corps Study was a large scale random assignment evaluation to examine program impacts on participants’ employment related outcomes. The design involved the random assignment of all eligible applicants nationwide between 1994 and early 1996 to a program or control group. The study participants are now between the ages of 38 and 46.
The report presents findings from a trend analysis of benefit plan auditors using 5500 filing data and audit reviews conducted by Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) between plan years 2011 and 2015. EBSA administers and enforces the reporting, disclosure, and fiduciary requirements of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). EBSA’s Office of the Chief Accountant, Division of Accounting Services enforces annual audit requirements of employee benefit plans.
Secondary data analysis
Adult workers
To better understand the efficiency and practicality of the State Exchange on Employment and Disability (SEED) initiative, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO), in collaboration with the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), conducted a formative evaluation. The formative evaluation would engage with stakeholders as the initiative was being developed and implemented through identifying fidelity of implementation and providing midstream assessments so that the implementers could make real-time adaptations.
Formative Evaluation
Federal Employees