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Download full textFerman, Louis A. – 1967
Operation Retrieval is a research project designed by the Department of Labor to review and assess the experiences of 55 experimental and demonstration projects for disadvantaged youth conducted during the period 1963-65, and to assess the impact of strategies in job placement, job creation, and job development. Job placement and development units…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation, Guidelines, Job Development
Bowen, William G., Ed.; Harbison, Frederick H., Ed. – 1965
The papers in this volume deal with the causes, cures, and magnitude of unemployment. Musgrave, Killingsworth, and Okun discuss the opposing structuralist and deficient demand theories of unemployment. Garth Mangum, Curtis Allen, William Caples and Alice Rivlin offer their experience concerning the role of government and industry in curing…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Black Employment, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1970
This annual report summarizes all Manpower Administration-sponsored research projects active or funded during fiscal year 1970 and lists all reports completed since the research program was begun in fiscal year 1963. Guidelines are included for submission of research proposals for research contracts, dissertation grants, and research project…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Research, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Hughes, James J. – 1970
This report reviews the literature on cost-benefit analysis of retraining and discusses possible approaches to conducting such an analysis. Exemplary programs in Sweden and the United States are described. Despite the existence of externalities which preclude exact calculation of costs and benefits, the report concludes that retraining is…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Climate, Economic Research
Somers, Gerald G. – 1972
Workers who were relocated under federally sponsored pilot mobility projects in Michigan and Wisconsin were compared with a group of nonmovers drawn from the same rural areas and with similar demographic and labor market characteristics. It was found that the movers improved their employment status, their occupational status, and their income…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Development, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs
Clague, Ewan; Kramer, Leo – 1976
Constituting an update to a previous publication that interpreted the directions of United States manpower policy subsequent to World War II, this publication places the previous essay in the historical context of manpower policies that reach back to the Great Depression of the 1930's and the Employment Act of 1946; and to policy options now…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Programs, Federal Government, Federal Legislation
