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Exhaustees of Extended Unemployment Benefits Programs: Coping with the Aftermath of the Great Recession
(2016)
The Great Recession and the time period following it were characterized by the longest average unemployment durations seen since World War II. To support unemployed workers, supplemental Unemployment Compensation (UC) ...
Characteristics and Motivation of Participants in the Self-Employment Training Demonstration
(2016-06)
An important feature of the Self-Employment Training (SET) demonstration program is that it targets a narrow population. To qualify for SET, an individual must be a dislocated worker, unemployed worker, or underemployed ...
Impact Estimates Regarding Nonparticipants in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program under the 2002 Amendments
(2012-08)
One of two reports from the Evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program provide impact estimates, for both participants and nonparticipants, of the TAA program under the 2002 amendments. Estimated impacts ...
Investigative Advisory Report - Weaknesses Contributing to Fraud in Unemployment Insurance Program
(2015-07-24)
This publication was prepared to provide the Department of Labor (DOL), Congress, and other interested parties with information related to our current investigative efforts to detect and pursue Unemployment Insurance (UI) ...
Understanding the Employment Outcomes of Trainees in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program under the 2002 Amendments
(2012-12)
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 ...
Wage Insurance and Wage Supplements: Final Evaluation and Design Report
(2016-01)
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 ...
Using Workforce Data Quality Initiative Databases to Develop and Improve Consumer Report Card Systems
(2014-05-23)
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 ...
Case Management for Self-Employment Success: Emerging Lessons from the Self-Employment Training Program
(2016-06)
The Self-Employment Training (SET) pilot program is testing the benefits of using case management to support aspiring small business owners. As part of case management, SET advisers at experienced, carefully vetted ...
Unemployment Insurance - States' Reductions in Maximum Benefit Durations Have Implications for Federal Costs
(2015-04)
This publication reports findings of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of nine states' reductions of maximum unemployment insurance (UI) benefit durations. The nine states reviewed were Arkansas (AR), Florida ...
DOL Report on State Legislation Report 1 - July 2015
(2015-07)
This report lists state legislation on such topics as monetary entitlement; administrative operations; financing; nonmonetary eligibility; coverage; overpayments; and appeals.