This report presents suggestive evidence on aspects of training funded by the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program (under the 2002 amendments) that were associated with better outcomes for participants. The analysis ...

This report outlines design parameters, evaluation methods, data sources, tasks, timelines and next steps for conducting a wage insurance and a wage supplement demonstration and accompanying evaluations. The report proposes ...

The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) Policy Workgroup was established in January 1998. The WPRS Policy Workgroup was composed of State, Regional and Federal workforce development staff. The Policy Workgroup's ...

In 2010, DOL launched the Workforce Data Quality Initiative (WDQI), and by the time of this study, DOL had awarded grants totaling over $30 million to 29 states over three rounds of competition. Consumer Report Card Systems ...

This research explores the difference in persuasive impact between consumer education materials that employ agentic or nominalized descriptions of identity theft.

This report traces historical developments in two major DOL programs: State Unemployment Insurance (UI) and the federal-state Employment Service (ES). Developments in the UI program are traced from the late 1940s while ES ...

This report presents a review of identity theft data provided in the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s 2014 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book. The authors pay special attention to the states where the volume of complaints ...

This publication reports the preliminary results of validation of an instrument to measure consumers' beliefs about identity theft and the impact of educational materials on their belief, attitudes, and behaviors

This publication at WorkforceGPS.org reports findings from an impact study that tested different reemployment bonuses on Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants employment outcomes and UI receipt and a benefit-cost analysis ...

This report examines the hypothesis that unemployment insurance (UI) claimants have been shifted from the UI program to federally-financed welfare programs in order to reduce the costs of state-financed UI benefits. The ...