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Author : Matthew D. Baird
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781977403476
This appendix reproduces the instruments used in the analysis presented in RR-2980-DOL.
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 1995-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780788122217
Addresses concerns about the efficiency and effectiveness of the federal employment training system. Provides information on similar programs that target four groups - the economically disadvantaged, dislocated workers, older workers, and youth. Compares key program characteristics, including goals, clients, services, service delivery approaches, and federal funding mechanisms. Tables.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2019
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN :
The authors of this brief examine the implementation and effectiveness of a New Orleans job training program that helped lower-skilled, unemployed, and underemployed individuals train for and find skilled jobs in particular industries.
Author : W. Norton Grubb
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 1996-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1610442571
"Grubb's powerful vision of a workforce development system connected by vertical ladders for upward mobility adds an important new dimension to our continued efforts at system reform. The unfortunate reality is that neither our first-chance education system nor our second-chance job training system have succeeded in creating clear pathways out of poverty for many of our citizens. Grubb's message deserves a serious hearing by policy makers and practitioners alike." —Evelyn Ganzglass, National Governors' Association Over the past three decades, job training programs have proliferated in response to mounting problems of unemployment, poverty, and expanding welfare rolls. These programs and the institutions that administer them have grown to a number and complexity that make it increasingly difficult for policymakers to interpret their effectiveness. Learning to Work offers a comprehensive assessment of efforts to move individuals into the workforce, and explains why their success has been limited. Learning to Work offers a complete history of job training in the United States, beginning with the Department of Labor's manpower development programs in the1960s and detailing the expansion of services through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in the 1970s and the Job Training Partnership Act in the 1980s.Other programs have sprung from the welfare system or were designed to meet the needs of various state and corporate development initiatives. The result is a complex mosaic of welfare-to-work, second-chance training, and experimental programs, all with their own goals, methodology, institutional administration, and funding. Learning to Work examines the findings of the most recent and sophisticated job training evaluations and what they reveal for each type of program. Which agendas prove most effective? Do their effects last over time? How well do programs benefit various populations, from welfare recipients to youths to displaced employees in need of retraining? The results are not encouraging. Many programs increase employment and reduce welfare dependence, but by meager increments, and the results are often temporary. On average most programs boosted earnings by only $200 to $500 per year, and even these small effects tended to decay after four or five years.Overall, job training programs moved very few individuals permanently off welfare, and provided no entry into a middle-class occupation or income. Learning to Work provides possible explanations for these poor results, citing the limited scope of individual programs, their lack of linkages to other programs or job-related opportunities, the absence of academic content or solid instructional methods, and their vulnerability to local political interference. Author Norton Grubb traces the root of these problems to the inherent separation of job training programs from the more successful educational system. He proposes consolidating the two domains into a clearly defined hierarchy of programs that combine school- and work-based instruction and employ proven methods of student-centered, project-based teaching. By linking programs tailored to every level of need and replacing short-term job training with long-term education, a system could be created to enable individuals to achieve increasing levels of economic success. The problems that job training programs address are too serious too ignore. Learning to Work tells us what's wrong with job training today, and offers a practical vision for reform.
Author : Morris Aaron Horowitz
Publisher :
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Clothing workers
ISBN :
"Early in 1979 the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a number of employer representatives of the women and children apparel industry jointly established the Apparel Job Training and Research Corporation (AJTRC) to further job training and research in the industry. The AJTRC received a contract from the Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor, to develop an industry-wide, private sector, on-the-job training program which would address issues basic to the survival and revival of a declining industry, as well as to train and employ economically disadvantaged persons. From October 1979 through March 1981 the AJTRC promoted and administered an on-the-job training program which involved over 100 firms in 17 states, and enrolled over 2,500 participants, a large majority of whom were disadvantaged workers. The purpose of this report is to describe the AJTRC training program and to assess the effectiveness of an industry-wide, private sector, on-the-job training approach in increasing the earnings and workforce attachments of these workers completing the special training program. A secondary purpose of measuring the effectiveness of specific training approaches or programs against trainee characteristics was not attainable because the basic approach by almost all participating firms was informal training on the job, i.e., learning by doing. The explanation for this was the small number of trainees enrolled at any point in time by any single firm. There seemed to be no interest in an area-wide training center to train the key occupation of sewing machine operator."--P. iii.
Author : Michael Bernick
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0880992816
Argues that a strong private economy can reduce unemployment more successfully than government programmes and that job training programmes should reflect the current market. Looks at ways of building and maintaining career ladders for the working poor, the roles of welfare reform and emerging new occupations in the ITC industries, aspects of poverty reduction, and job training in a world of globalization.
Author : John E. Drotning
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Hard-core unemployed
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Author : Burt S. Barnow
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780877666899
The labor market has changed dramatically in recent decades. In the 1980s an average of 2 million workers each year lost their jobs because of the increasingly global economy, rapid advances in technology, and corporate downsizing. During the same period, immigration increased and Congress passed welfare reform legislation that required many more Americans to join the workforce. Legislators have looked closely at federal job training programs in recent years, and in 1998 passed the two major acts mandating change. In Improving the Odds, experts on labor policy explore the effects of current programs on earnings and employment, recommend improvements in programs, and assess the methodologies used to measure their effectiveness. The editors offer several strategies to help policymakers design programs that fulfill the promise of keeping workers out of poverty. Contents: -Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labour Market (Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King) -The Economic, Demographic, and Social Context of Future Employment and Training Programs (Frank Bennici, Steven Mangum, and A ndrew M. Sum) -Welfare Employment Programs: Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Employment and Training Activities (Lisa Plimpton and Demetra Smith Nightingale) -The Impact of Job Training Partnership Act Programs for Adult Welfare Recipients (Jodi Nudelman) -Training Success Stories for Adults and Out-of-School Youth: A Tale of Two States (Christopher T. King, with Jerome A. Olson, Leslie O. Lawson, Charles E. Trott, and John Baj) -Employment and Training Programs for Out-of-School Youth: Past Effects and Lessons for the Future (Robert I. Lerman) -Customized Training for Employers: Training People for Jobs That Exist and Employers Who Want to Hire Them (Kellie Isbell, John Trutko, and vBurt S. Barnow) -Training Programs for Dislocated Workers (Duane E. Leigh) -Methodologies for Determining the Effectiveness of Training Programs (Daniel Friedlander, David H. Greenberg, and Philip K. Robins) -Reflections on Training Policies and Programs (Garth L. Mangum) -Strategies for Improving the Odds (Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King).
Author : United States. Office of Education. Office of Programs for the Disadvantaged. Information Center
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Occupational retraining
ISBN :
USA. Information booklet on government-sponsored training programmes for disabled workers - covers programmes for vocational training, vocational rehabilitation and retraining (incl. For young workers), characteristics thereof, benefits for participants, the administering agency, legal aspects thereof, etc., and includes a directory of responsible regional offices.
Author : Harry J. Holzer
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815730225
Practical solutions for improving higher education opportunities for disadvantaged students Too many disadvantaged college students in America do not complete their coursework or receive any college credential, while others earn degrees or certificates with little labor market value. Large numbers of these students also struggle to pay for college, and some incur debts that they have difficulty repaying. The authors provide a new review of the causes of these problems and offer promising policy solutions. The circumstances affecting disadvantaged students stem both from issues on the individual side, such as weak academic preparation and financial pressures, and from institutional failures. Low-income students disproportionately attend schools that are underfunded and have weak performance incentives, contributing to unsatisfactory outcomes for many students. Some solutions, including better financial aid or academic supports, target individual students. Other solutions, such as stronger linkages between coursework and the labor market and more structured paths through the curriculum, are aimed at institutional reforms. All students, and particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, also need better and varied pathways both to college and directly to the job market, beginning in high school. We can improve college outcomes, but must also acknowledge that we must make hard choices and face difficult tradeoffs in the process. While no single policy is guaranteed to greatly improve college and career outcomes, implementing a number of evidence-based policies and programs together has the potential to improve these outcomes substantially.