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Peer reviewedStromsdorfer, Ernst W. – Evaluation Review, 1987
Seven studies commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor measuring the net market impacts of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act are reviewed. Their purpose was to generate informed debate on the efficacy of quasi-experimental designs and structural economic models to evaluate federally subsidized employment and training programs. (BS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Job Training
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1992
This congressional hearing focuses on the Endangered Species Employment Transition Assistance Act of 1992, which would amend the Job Training Partnership Act to provide job training and supportive services to workers dislocated as a result of enforcement of the Endangered Species Act. Testimony includes statements, articles, publications,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Dislocated Workers, Employment Services
Hollenbeck, Kevin – 1990
This study examined the characteristics of dislocated workers' wage profiles upon reemployment. In particular, it related these profiles to the model developed by Mincer and Ofek (1982). An inference from this model was that workers recovered wage losses relatively rapidly. Explanations for a steeply sloped reentry wage profile were as follows:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Education, Dislocated Workers
An Overview of the Labor Market Problems of Indians and Native Americans. Research Report No. 89-02.
Ainsworth, Robert G. – 1989
This booklet provides an overview of the labor market problems facing Indians and Native Americans, the most economically disadvantaged ethnic group in the United States. It summarizes Indian policy, particularly major policies and laws that relate to early trade restrictions and the exploitation of Indians through trade; their forced removal from…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Kolberg, William H., Ed. – 1983
This book examines the causes of worker displacement in the United States in the context of national economic change. It discusses the promising, through scattered, efforts already underway to help dislocated workers and outlines more far-reaching steps that can be taken with assistance of the federal Job Training Partnership Act of 1982. The book…
Descriptors: Adults, Demonstration Programs, Dislocated Workers, Economic Change
Stone, Charles F.; Sawhill, Isabel V. – 1986
A study analyzed how trade has affected and was likely to affect the economy along three dimensions: (1) the employment shifts occurring during the years 1972-1984; (2) the outlook for employment projected to 1990 under four different scenarios; and (3) issues related to displaced workers. Increased international trade was found to have been…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Career Change, Dislocated Workers
