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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) makes major investments in employment and training services to help improve veterans’ labor market outcomes. These investments include services available only to veterans through the Jobs for Veterans State Grants program (JVSG), as well as priority of service to workforce programs available to the broader population, most notably through the Wagner-Peyser Employment Service and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
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.
Appendices to the National Job Corps Study: 20-Year Follow-Up Study Using Tax Data Final Report. Appendix A presents additional tables of impact results referenced in the main report. Appendix B presents additional details on the tax data, the construction of outcome variables, and analytic methods used to estimate the impacts and interpret them.
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.
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.
In 2021, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) funded contractors ICF International and their partners (American Institutes for Research and Advocates for Human Potential) and Abt Associates and their partners (MEF Associates and AnLar) to support the Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR) program through two CLEAR ARISE contracts. CLEAR ARISE’s work is informed by DOLs annual learning agenda process and emerging agency priorities.
In 2019, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Employment and Training Administration to fund contractors MDRC and Abt Associates to develop research and evaluation framework options that will support the Department of Labor’s efforts to ensure a strategic, continuous learning process responsive to Job Corps’ evidence-building needs.
In 2018, the Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) partnered with the Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) and funded contractor Summit Consulting to conduct Return-to-Work Outcomes for Federal Employees in the Office of Workers’ Compensation Disability Management Program under the Administrative Data Research and Analysis portfolio of studies.
The report presents findings on plan filings of Form 5500 using data from 2000 to 2016. The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) administers and enforces the reporting, disclosure, and fiduciary requirements of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Each year, employee benefit plans are required to submit Form 5500 to EBSA to report information about the plan. Form 5500 captures important employee benefit plan information on plan type, plan administration, and plan benefits.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) is an employment-based, random-sample survey of U.S. crop workers that collects demographic, employment, and health data in face-to-face interviews. The survey began in Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 1989; since then over 66,000 workers have been interviewed. The primary purposes of the NAWS are to monitor the terms and conditions of agricultural employment and assess the conditions of farmworkers. The survey also generates information for various Federal agencies that oversee farmworker programs.