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Download full textToikka, Richard S. – 1978
A study was conducted to address the question of what impact the expansion of employment and training programs for youth (such as the Youth Employment Demonstration Projects Act of 1977) is likely to have on employment and unemployment of young people. The method used in the analysis was to specify a model (similar to the Markov model) of the…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Employment Statistics
Toikka, Richard S. – 1979
This document is a continuation of CE 028 077 and uses the same statistical model (Markov Processes) with slight variations on the technique to carry out a simulation of the impact of the expansion in youth employment programs which occurred in fiscal 1978. Department of Labor 1977 figures for the total number of job/training positions funded by…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Employment Statistics
Toikka, Richard S. – 1979
This paper develops an approach to estimating the effect of government employment and training programs on measured unemployment. The theoretical aspects of the method draws heavily on earlier work on labor market flow equilibrium (see note). Previous estimates of the direct or statistical impact of government programs on the unemployment rate…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs, Employment Statistics
Wells, Patricia L. – 1991
This monograph describes the curriculum and teaching methods used to teach socialization skills at the Boys Town (Nebraska) special residential school for boys with behavioral disorders as well as replications of the Boys Town model in other locations. The model takes the basic techniques of the schools's Family/Home model and applies them to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques
Milgram, Donna; Watkins, Kristin – 1994
Research conducted by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) in 1993 confirmed the following: young women are still concentrated in traditionally female training areas and are still virtually absent from technical and high-wage training areas; discrepancies between males' and females' wage and unemployment levels are greatest among individuals who do…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. – 1999
This document records the oral and written testimony from a 1999 Senate Committee hearing on "the forgotten half"--young people who do not continue their education past high school and, in many cases, do not finish high school. Witnesses testified that there is a great need for persons with technical skills to fill existing and projected…
Descriptors: Blacks, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
