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Moore, Richard W.; Duscha, Steve; Blake, Daniel R. – International Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 1998
An evaluation of Hong Kong's Employee Retraining Board programs used interviews, case studies of training agencies, surveys of trainers and graduates, and employer focus groups. Recommendations were made regarding measurement of the size and characteristics of the displaced worker population, targeting of services, and alignment of incentives with…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs, Foreign Countries, Incentives
Moore, Richard W.; Blake, Daniel R.; Honig, Michele L.; Cohen, Michael D. – 1997
The Employment Training Panel (ETP) contracted with California State University-Northridge to review the fixed fee structure ETP used to pay contractors for training provided under ETP. Three research questions were investigated: what other institutions use the fixed fee and what they pay for; whether ETP's fixed-fee rates were reasonable in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness
Moore, Richard W.; And Others – 1994
A study evaluated the economic outcomes of one state-sponsored training program--the California Employment Training Panel (ETP)--which captured the benefits of private job training within a public program. It examined the impact of ETP training on a new group of 41,959 ETP trainees trained in 1990-91 in the year after training and estimated the…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, Employment Programs, Job Training
Moore, Richard W.; Blake, Daniel R.; Anacker, Christopher; Cohen, Michael D. – 1997
This study examined the role of subcontractors and consultants in California's Employment Training Panel (ETP) program. Methods included interviews, focus groups, a phone survey, and a survey of projects without subcontractors. Results indicated that the market in which administrative and training consultants sell their services to employers is…
Descriptors: Consultants, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Economics
Moore, Richard W.; Blake, Daniel – 1992
Earnings and unemployment data from the California Employment Development Department and the California Employment Training Panel (ETP) Program records were used to analyze the effects of ETP. Earnings, weeks of unemployment, and unemployment insurance payments were measured in the year before and after training of ETP trainees who enrolled…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Dislocated Workers, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Moore, Richard W.; Addy, Ronald; Blake, Daniel R.; Gorman, Philip C.; Herczeg, Claire F.; Phillips, G. Michael; Shipley, Daniella – 2002
Evaluation of the role of structured on-site training (SOST) in the Employment Training Panel's (ETP's) training program involved 10 case studies of active ETP projects with SOST, survey of 50 recently closed projects with SOST, face-to-face interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders, Delphi survey of consultants, and quantitative analysis…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Contract Training, Employment Programs, Experiential Learning
Moore, Richard W.; And Others – 1995
The California Employment Training Panel (ETP), which was designed as a performance-driven training program, pays agencies for training provided only if the trainee is placed and retained in a related job for 90 days. The labor market experience of ETP trainees was tracked from 1989-90, 1990-91, and 1991-92 to measure the impact of ETP training on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development
Moore, Richard W.; Blake, Daniel R.; Phillips, G. Michael; McConaughy, Daniel – 2003
California's Employment Training Panel Program (ETP), the largest state-funded customized training program for incumbent workers in the nation, has had a positive impact on the economy of California, and its success has policy implications for other state programs. The impact of ETP on trainees includes the following: they are more attached to the…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Employees, Employment Programs, Improvement Programs