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Peer reviewedDickinson, Katherine P.; And Others – Journal of Human Resources, 1986
Provides estimates of the impact of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs on participants' postprogram earnings using matched comparison groups developed from a "nearest-neighbor" matching technique. Results indicate that CETA has a negative and statistically significant earnings impact for adult men, and a modest,…
Descriptors: Age, Employed Women, Males, Program Effectiveness
Download full textBrown, Michael R.; Scrimger, Kay R. – 1981
Because of the importance of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and vocational education coordination at all levels, a number of research and development efforts aimed at improved coordination have been funded in recent years by the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Office (now Department) of Education, and state agencies across the…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Bassi, Laurie J. – 1980
A study was conducted to develop a theoretical framework for unbiased estimation of the dynamic net impact of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs on participants' earnings. (The possibility of selectivity bias arises from the non-random nature of participation in the program. That is, if participation is a function of…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Needs
Toikka, 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
Briney, Margorie; Long, James S. – 1985
This 1984 study (1) estimated the more enduring benefits of a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prevocational program for those who completed the program in 1979; and (2) identified the features of the CETA program that completers recalled as having contributed to these benefits. The 18-week CETA prevocational program was offered by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Benefits
Battle (Mark) Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1980
This volume is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977. It is a report of an assessment study designed to determine the status and results of the implementation of mixed income experiments at 47 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Westat Research, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1980
This report is one of the products of the knowledge development effort implemented under the mandate of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act of 1977 (YEDPA). It describes an aspect of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program--the personal characteristics, economic backgrounds, and pre-CETA year experiences of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Background, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This is the second report concerning how Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) sponsors implemented two programs under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA), specifically the Youth Community Conservation Improvement Projects (YCCIP) and Youth Employment and Training Program (YETP). The report is based on studies by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations
