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ERIC Number: ED325667
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990
Pages: 183
Abstractor: N/A
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)
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
Education Level: N/A
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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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