ERIC Number: ED325667
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990
Pages: 183
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ISBN: ISBN-0-88099-098-8
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Back to Work. Testing Reemployment Services for Displaced Workers.
Bloom, Howard S.
This monograph presents results from a study of the Texas Worker Adjustment Demonstration, a 2,192-person randomized experimental evaluation of reemployment programs for displaced workers conducted at three Texas sites during 1984-85. It describes in detail: (1) the background, design, conduct, and content of the programs at each demonstration site; (2) the evaluation design, implementation process, data collection effort, and analysis; (3) factors that influenced participation in the program, with special emphasis on characteristics of the program intake process, participants' backgrounds, and available program services; (4) program impacts for men and for women, as well as other key subgroups, in terms of their future earnings, employment, and unemployment insurance benefits; and (5) program costs. The following key findings are reported: (1) a relatively inexpensive mix of job-search assistance and limited occupational skills training can be a cost-effective means of assisting some displaced workers; (2) program impacts for displaced female workers were substantial and sustained throughout the 1-year follow-up period, although they diminished continually over time; (3) impacts for men were appreciable, but much smaller and shorter lived than those for women; and (4) measured earnings impacts for women exceeded their program costs. Forty-six references and an index are appended. (YLB)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Job Search Methods, Job Skills, Job Training, Labor Force Development, Outplacement Services (Employment), Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Vocational Followup
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 300 South Westnedge Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49007-4686 (paperback ISBN 0-88099-098-8: $13.95; hardcover ISBN 0-88099-097-X: $22.95).
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Books
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Upjohn (W.E.) Inst. for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI.
Identifiers - Location: Texas
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Job Training Partnership Act 1982
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