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Schaberg, Kelsey – MDRC, 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to high unemployment rates overall, low-wage workers have been hit particularly hard. It is likely that many of the jobs lost as a result of the current recession will never return, even as new jobs are created. Some job seekers may have to learn new skills so they can find employment in a new field. Sector…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Job Training, Retraining
Dockery, A. Michael; Milsom, Nicola – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
This report sets out to comprehensively analyse major reviews and evaluations of programs relevant to Indigenous labour market outcomes, including national mainstream and Indigenous-specific policies. The main evaluations covered relate to the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy, the Indigenous Employment Policy, the Community Development…
Descriptors: Community Development, Indigenous Populations, Employment Programs, Labor Market

Taylor, Ronald L. – Youth and Society, 1990
Reviews youth employment and training programs since 1962. Concludes that successful programs share the following characteristics: (1) a focus on chronic unemployment; (2) comprehensive remedial programs and human services; (3) early intervention; and (4) connections to mainstream institutions. (FMW)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Job Training, Program Effectiveness

McCaughrin, Wendy B.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1993
Monetary costs and benefits of supported employment to individuals with mental retardation (n=20), taxpayers, and society were assessed, as was the quality of life of supported employees. Supported employment was found to be cost-effective over a five-year period during which programs moved from sheltered to supported employment. (DB)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Impact, Employment Programs, Mental Retardation
Shafer, Michael S.; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
A survey of 27 states receiving federal supported employment grants was conducted. Results indicated that the number of participating individuals increased 157 percent during the 3-year study period; over 1,400 programs of supported employment were authorized by state agencies during this time; and the individual placement model remained the most…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment Programs, Federal Aid
Robertson, Robert E. – US Government Accountability Office, 2005
GAO prepared this report under the Comptroller General's authority as part of an effort to assist policy makers in determining how federal disability programs could more effectively meet the needs of individuals with disabilities and addressed it to each committee of jurisdiction. In this report, GAO assesses: (1) the extent to which state…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Disabilities, Vocational Rehabilitation, Program Effectiveness
President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, Washington, DC. – 2000
This report from the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, a federal agency that coordinates and promotes public and private efforts to enhance the employment of people with disabilities, describes committee activities during Fiscal Year 1999 (October 1, 1998- September 30, 1999). The first part of the report profiles…
Descriptors: Adults, Advocacy, Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Glover, Robert, Ed.; Grubb, W. Norton, Ed. – 1983
Three major types of occupational training programs in Texas were analyzed to reveal their strengths and weaknesses and the extent to which each had succeeded in resolving the dilemmas common to all forms of occupational training. These dilemmas were effectiveness and relevance, the purpose and content of training, and targeting. Firm-based…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Bowen, Brent D. – 1990
This paper examines why the Airway Science Program, initiated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop college-educated and technically prepared personnel for FAA employment (primarily for air traffic control), has failed to meet its work force goals. Research data were gathered from interviews with Airway Science Program…
Descriptors: Air Traffic Control, Aviation Education, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Orfield, Gary; Slessarev, Helene – 1986
This book-length report, prepared for the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the House Committee on Education and Labor, describes the first comprehensive state-wide assessment of training programs--specifically the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)--in Illinois. The introduction assesses the JTPA in Illinois, a State with high…
Descriptors: Dislocated Workers, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
Ball, Joseph; And Others – 1981
The Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects demonstration has been the most ambitious attempt thus far to determine the feasibility of using private employers to provide a work experience in a youth employment program. In establishing this demonstration, congress authorized program operators to recruit private businesses as well as the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employer Attitudes
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1983
A formal review was conducted to assess the efforts made by federal agencies to implement the 1983 Emergency Jobs Appropriations Act (EJAA). (The EJAA provided emergency supplemental appropriations to provide productive employment for jobless Americans, to hasten or initiate federal projects and construction of lasting value to the nation, and to…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Construction Programs, Employment Programs, Federal Government
Cook, Robert F.; And Others – 1985
A study examined the experiences of local governments throughout the United States in implementing the public service employment (PSE) component of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). The study involved four rounds of observations (in July and December 1977, December 1979, and December 1980) of programs in 40 State and local…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged, Educational Needs, Employment Programs
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1983
These Congressional hearings contain testimony dealing with the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Included among those persons providing testimony at the hearings were representatives of the following agencies and organizations: the National Governors' Association, the Department of Labor, the Office of Management and Budget, the National…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Educational Legislation, Employment Programs
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