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BROOKS, LYMAN B.; AND OTHERS – 1964
PROGRAMS WERE PLANNED AND DEVELOPED TO PROVIDE UNSKILLED WORKERS WITH THE TRAINING NECESSARY TO COMPETE IN THE CURRENT LABOR MARKET. SUBJECTS WERE ASSIGNED TO FOUR GROUPS--(1) THE MAIN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP, (2) THE SUBSIDIARY EXPERIMENTAL GROUP, (3) THE SUBSIDIARY CONTROL GROUP, AND (4) THE MAIN CONTROL GROUP. THE GROUPS RECEIVED VARIOUS TREATMENTS…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Employment Problems, Evaluation Methods, Labor Force Development
Download full textLeigh, Duane E. – 1990
The principal roles for publicly sponsored retraining programs are twofold: (1) to reduce the private and social costs associated with unnecessary delays in the reemployment process; and (2) to assist in the replacement of specific human capital lost when a permanent layoff takes place. Nine different demonstration projects and operating programs…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs
Forrester, Keith, Ed.; Ward, Kevin, Ed. – 1991
This book contains 12 chapters, each of which is a case study or a commentary on the unemployment of the 1980s and early 1990s and on the programs devised to retrain workers. Titles and authors are as follows: "Understanding Unemployment: A Critical Overview of Labour Market Trends, Employment, and Unemployment: (John Hughes); "A…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Demonstration Programs, Developed Nations
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
NAB Clearinghouse Quarterly, 1984
This document is the first issue of a National Alliance of Business publication designed to present proven solutions, cutting-edge strategies, and comprehensive reference materials and to examine in depth in each issue a critical issue related to public/private employment and training partnerships. This first issue addresses one of the most…
Descriptors: Adults, Citations (References), Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Henry, Ann; Teschendorf, JoAnn – 1984
The Older Worker Project was conducted to provide employment services to unemployed persons aged 45 and older who live in the western part of the Hennepin County (Minneapolis, Minnesota) area. Although the expected result was permanent employment of the participants, the intention of this demonstration project was to refine service approaches…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Attitude Change, Career Change, Career Counseling
Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education. – 1979
This report of a project to begin to develop a plan for research, development, and instruction in adult vocational education in Illinois has two specific goals: (1) to identify the current status of adult vocational education in Illinois and (2) to recommend key directions for state actions. It presents information collected through a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Articulation (Education), Career Change
