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Download full textBloom, Dan – MDRC, 2010
The budget for the U.S. Department of Labor for Fiscal Year 2010 includes a total of $45 million to support and study transitional jobs. This paper describes the origins of the transitional jobs models that are operating today, reviews the evidence on the effectiveness of this approach and other subsidized employment models, and offers some…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Welfare Services, Supported Employment, Employment Programs
Francis, Caroline M. – National Poverty Center, 2013
This bibliography summarizes recent research on the structure and effectiveness of workforce development programs. While the term "workforce development" can mean many things, this document focuses on programs to help low-skill, low-wage and displaced workers increase their employment and earnings, as well as labor market trends that…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Labor Force Development, Low Income Groups, Labor Market
Direct linkMoore, Richard W.; Gorman, Philip C. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2009
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) measures participant labor market outcomes to drive program performance. This article uses statistical analysis to examine the relationship between participant characteristics and key outcome measures in one large California local WIA program. This study also measures the impact of different training…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, Labor Market, Program Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewedAnderson, Kathryn H.; And Others – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1993
Analysis of Tennessee Job Training Partnership Act data shows that creaming (nonrandom selection of participants, especially nonselection of disadvantaged persons) takes place but not as greatly as critics suggest. Selection of economically disadvantaged persons would lower the placement rate only 8%; targeting high school dropouts would reduce…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Eligibility, Job Placement
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1985
The way in which the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) is or is not serving the agricultural community is the focus of these proceedings. This record contains presentations and/or written testimony given by senators and representatives, by the directors of JTPA service delivery areas, by a representative from the Job Service in Iowa, by several…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Farmers, Federal Programs
Apling, Richard N. – 1989
Contributing to the debate on the nature of the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, this report discusses three proposals that would establish standards of performance for vocational education and analyzes experiences from performance standards implemented as part of other social and educational programs, such as the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Federal Aid
Benson, Dennis K. – 1990
A survey of 491 Ohio employers of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) terminees conducted in November 1989 received 346 responses. Employers were queried on attitudes toward JTPA terminees, wage subsidies, employee productivity, wages paid, benefits given, and retention, among other questions. Employees who had completed JTPA programs and were…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employer Attitudes, Employment Programs, Fringe Benefits
Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, DC. – 1993
This report summarizes discussions from two round-table seminars exploring federal programs that affect children and families. Ideas presented in this report are organized around five topics: (1) symptoms of fragmented federal programs for children and families; (2) why coordinated services for children and families are so rare; (3) what Congress…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Elementary Secondary Education
Claar, Roger C; Collins, Charles P. – Vocational Education Journal, 1986
Describes programs at the Wilco Area Career Center (Illinois) where vocational training is provided for secondary students at the junior/senior level. Also discusses the relationship between the center and the Will County Private Industry Council, completing a Request for Proposal (RFP), demonstrating program quality for the RFP, and keeping costs…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Training, Program Effectiveness, Proposal Writing
Lee, Chris – Training, 1986
Takes a look at the first two and one-half years of the Job Training Partnership Act: its purpose, how it compares to past job training programs funded by the Federal Government, service delivery areas, private industry councils, intended audience of the project, and project success stories. (CT)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Government, Job Skills, Job Training
Saupe, William E.; Salant, Priscilla – 1988
A study examined and evaluated both public and private efforts to assist dislocated farmers, with particular emphasis on employment and training programs. The study found that about 46,000 farmers are currently leaving farming each year, and the rate probably will continue for the next several years. Since the majority of the farmers who leave…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Farmers
Job Corps, 2008
This paper presents the recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Job Corps to the Secretary of Labor pertaining to the review, development and implementation of policies, legislation and regulations for the Job Corps program. This document represents the culmination of an intensive and comprehensive nine-month process undertaken by the…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor, Federal Programs, Program Effectiveness
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1994
This document records the oral testimony and written reports of witnesses who testified at a Congressional hearing on moving the United States toward a comprehensive employment training system. Witnesses included members of Congress, state officials, labor representatives, and association officials concerned with employment and training. At the…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Job Training
Benson, Dennis K. – 1990
Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (ASI), the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) follow-up data collection contractor for the state of Ohio, reviewed "JTPA: Another Federal Training Fraud," issued by the CATO Institute. ASI found the report exceptionally shallow and unquestionably misleading. The report appeared to be unaware of the mandated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1983
The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) compared the former Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP) with the traditional Comprehensive Services Program (Title IIB) in terms of participants, services, and outcomes in order to provide baseline data for the supervision of the Job Training Partnership…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
