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Download full textBloom, Howard S.; And Others – 1992
A study was made of the impact of Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Title II-A on the earnings and employment of four target groups (adult women and men and female and male out-of-school youth) over the first 18 months after random assignment to a treatment group that had access to the program or a control group, which did not. The study…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, Blacks, Dropouts
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC. – 1994
A study used data on the characteristics, Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program activities, and quarterly earnings of about 6,500 adult female Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients who enrolled in JTPA programs in 11 states during Program Year 1986. The study tracked the experiences of the women in the JTPA programs and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
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
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1990
This report on effective programs for children updates the 1988 report by providing new and stronger documentation of the programs' benefits and cost effectiveness. Eight programs and types of programs are discussed in Part I and four program areas that warrant attention are discussed in Part II. Part I reports on: (1) the Special Supplemental…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Employment Programs
National Association of Private Industry Councils, Washington, DC. – 1987
This paper contains four charts that describe the participation of people with disabilities in Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs for program year 1986. The first chart displays the state-by-state participation rates for both youth and adults with disabilities in JTPA Title II-A programs. Chart 2 lists the state-by-state participation…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Lund, Leonard; Weber, Nathan – 1983
During the summer of 1982, summer jobs programs organized and operated by the private sector were underway in numerous cities, often in addition to or in cooperation with the government-funded Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) projects. Of the 176 companies that responded to a Conference Board survey of 480 of the largest…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Business Responsibility, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Gibson, G. Ruth – 1983
This study was designed to investigate the effect of participation in the first-year Coordinated Vocational Academic Education Program (CVAE) and the effect of participation in work experience on the knowledge of basic employment skills and work attitudes of disadvantaged youth in selected Georgia high schools. The study compared the scores on the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Potential, Employment Programs
Gainer, William J. – 1989
The General Accounting Office (GAO) commented on H.R. 2039, which would amend both the adult and youth titles of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). GAO's analysis suggested the following: (1) although H.R. 2039 proposes to target greater resources to those who are hard to serve by requiring that 50 percent of adult JTPA participants have one…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Compliance (Legal), Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
PDF pending restorationTroutt-Erwin, Eileen; Morgan, Frederic L. – 1986
For the past 10 years, the School of Technical Careers at Southern Illinois University has blended government Job Training Partnership Act or Comprehensive Employment and Training Act funds, existing college programs, and local health facilities into successful training programs in allied health careers. The School of Technical Careers, through…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, College Programs, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Betsey, Charles L., Ed.; And Others – 1985
This study is an evaluation of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) which was in effect from 1977-1981. The first chapter summarizes the youth employment problem and draws conclusions and makes recommendations based upon the data in the report. The next chapter draws a detailed picture of the youth unemployment problem,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Federal Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1982
An examination of the employment service's operations in Maryland, Michigan, and Florida showed that its functions fall into two broad categories: labor exchange and non-labor exchange. State and local employment service officials and many employers believed the non-labor exchange functions detract from the labor exchange missions. The extent and…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
This document contains a transcript of a hearing concerning the proposed Community Partnership for Employment and Training Act (H.R. 5320) and two related bills (H.R. 5461 and H.R. 5533). The transcript York, New York). Act proposes to establish a community public-private training and employment assistance system and to provide employment and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Community Programs, Disadvantaged
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr. – 1984
In March 1983, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) received $4 million in Federal funds to establish an emergency jobs program as authorized under the Emergency Jobs Act of 1983. Within 90 days, TVA found employment for 493 persons, and, by the end of June 1984, 1,183 persons had been employed by TVA. Of those employed, 14.9 percent were…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Employment Practices, Employment Programs, Employment Services
PDF pending restorationWeidman, John C. – 1978
Portland, Oregon, employers approached by Work Incentive Program (WIN) clients were surveyed to determine their reactions to various components of the voucher on-the-job training (OJT) program, to identify the types of employing organizations that were likely to be receptive to vouchered OJT, to assess the actual functioning of the voucher system…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Vouchers, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Taggart, Robert – 1981
Information on training and remediation activities for unemployed and underemployed persons is described and analyzed with emphasis on programs authorized by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Chapter 1 overviews the dilemma of persons with employment and earnings problems and approaches to dealing with the problem. CETA, its…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Strategies, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
