This Journal of Policy Analysis & Management article examines the effects of “intensive services” provided by the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs, two of the largest employment service programs in the United States.
This scan summarizes existing evidence on key topics related to programs and services supported by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
This scan summarizes recent and long-term economic and policy trends and their implications for the programs and services supported by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
This report documents and explores the strengths and drawbacks of data sources commonly used to produce impact estimates for evaluations of workforce development programs.
This infographic presents information on enrollment and completion in training programs by program, gender, education, race and ethnicity, and length of unemployment spell from a national study of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This issue brief presents findings on the factors that predict completion of training programs and the receipt of a credential from a national study of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This publication presents study highlights from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This brief presents the impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This publication is a technical supplement to the final impact report of the national evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs: Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 30-Month Impact Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs.
This report presents the 30-month impact findings from a national experimental evaluation of the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs. It also provides the cost-benefit analysis results.
This report appendix presents details of the technical approach for estimating the impacts of the availability of intensive and training services funded by the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
This report presents findings from a study of the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker programs’ impacts on employment and earnings.
The Adult and Dislocated Worker programs are two of the largest public workforce investment programs in the United States, so it is important to determine the effectiveness of the services they offer.
This brief describes how the 28 Local Workforce Investment Boards (LWIBs), studied as part of the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation, collaborated regionally with other LWIBs.
This brief describes how Local Workforce Investment Boards incorporated a sector focus into their Adult and Dislocated Worker programs. It is one of 11 special topic briefs based on findings from the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation implementation study.
This brief describes the structure and priorities of the 28 Local Workforce Investment Boards examined as part of the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation.
This brief describes key features of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) accountability system and the role of performance measures in the 28 areas studied as part of the WIA Gold Standard Evaluation.
This brief describes how the 28 areas examined as part of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Gold Standard Evaluation spent their WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker program funds.
This issue brief provides cost estimates for five Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult and Dislocated Worker programs’ services, including visits to the resource room, structured assessments, job clubs, workshops, and one-on-one counselor meetings.
This brief summarizes the collaboration between the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Adult and Dislocated Worker programs and other American Job Center partners. It is one of 11 special topic briefs based on findings from the WIA Gold Standard Evaluation implementation study.
This brief describes how local Workforce Investment Boards organized their American Job Centers into service-delivery networks.
This brief describes how Local Workforce Investment Boards adapted to an uncertain funding environment, including how they managed programs and made service changes as a result of funding uncertainty.
This brief describes the types of business services provided by the 28 study Local Workforce Investment Boards that participated in the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation.
This brief describes enhanced intake models deployed for all new customers seeking support from American Job Centers. It focuses on how seven local areas implemented the model and the challenges they encountered.
This report describes the implementation of the impact study of the Workforce Investment Act Gold Standard Evaluation.
As thousands of military veterans return from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and seek to enter the civilian labor market, providing effective employment and training services to veterans is becoming increasingly important.
Using data collected from interviews with program staff and administrative data for the 28 local workforce investment areas randomly selected to participate in the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation, we examined the characteristics of...