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Issue: 2011-14
The Effect of Continuing Education Participation on Agricultural Worker Outcomes
DescriptionMigrant farmworkers are among the poorest members of the working class served by the U.S. public workforce investment system. Stated goals of job training and employment assistance programs within this system, such as the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), include assisting migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents increase "economic stability" by steadying agricultural …
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Issue: 2011-13
Policy and Low-Wage Labor Supply: A Case Study of Policy and Farm Labor Markets in New York State
DescriptionFarm operators and industry groups often advocate for change in immigration policy to address farm labor shortages. Such calls for intervention raise questions about the range of policies that relate to labor supply and affect farm workers in local markets. This paper describes a case study of policies related to farm worker supply and how these play out in labor markets in New York, drawing from …
PopulationFarm Workers
ProgramNational Farmworker Jobs Program
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-12
Ensuring the Quality of Training Providers under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA)
DescriptionThe Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) authorized the use of a voucher-like mechanism, called Individual Training Accounts (ITAs), by which the WIA participants can purchase training services. To ensure that customers have a selection of high-quality training providers whose training will lead to employment, states are required to provide ITA participants with a list of eligible training …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-11
Earnings Progression Among Workforce Development Participants: Evidence from Washington State
DescriptionThis research measures earnings progression among participants in federally funded Workforce Investment Act (WIA) programs in the state of Washington during the period 2001-2008, compared to that among participants in less intensive workforce services. Unlike previous evaluations that have emphasized earnings levels, this study addresses earnings progression in order to assess whether workers …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-10
Workforce Investment Act Training for Older Workers: Toward a Better Understanding of Older Worker Needs during the Economic Recovery
DescriptionThis paper empirically examines factors affecting older workers' Entered Employment Rate using panel data models and identifies relevant policy implications. It starts with the background of an aging workforce and the current economic recession that makes training older workers critical. After reviewing literature on older workers' attributes and the uniqueness of older worker training, the paper …
ProgramSenior Community Service Employment (SCSEP)
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-09
Does Occupational Training by the Trade Adjustment Assistance Program Really Help Reemployment?: Success Measured as Matching
DescriptionAs international trade continues to expand, more workers lose their jobs to low wage workers in developing countries. The Trade Adjustment Assistance Program is a dislocated worker program established to help their reemployment by providing occupational skills training and reemployment services. This paper measures the success of training provision as the match between the occupations of training …
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-08
Privatization and Employment in the Implementation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): A Multi-Level Analysis
DescriptionPrivatization in the implementation of social welfare programs represents a relatively unexplored administrative strategy and little remains known of its origins and consequences. After briefly exploring the antecedents of welfare contracting across the American states, this research utilizes multi-level modeling techniques to examine the consequences of privatization on the employment outcomes …
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-07
Evaluation of the Technology-Based Learning Grants Interim Report
DescriptionIn January 2009, ETA awarded funds to 20 grantees in 16 states under a $10 million competitive grant opportunity to develop and implement TBL projects over a three-year period. Grantees include universities and community colleges, private non-profit organizations, a state workforce agency, and a local workforce investment board. The size of the TBL grants ranged widely, from a low of $154,018 to …
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Issue: 2011-06
Early Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Workforce Development and Unemployment Insurance Provisions Interim Report
DescriptionThe Employment and Training Administration (ETA) received economic stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) that were intended to provide jobs, expand access to Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits, employment services, and retrain millions of unemployed workers during the ""Great Recession". Programs that received additional allocated funds …
PopulationAdult
ProgramTrade Adjustment Assistance, Unemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 2011-05
Analysis of Associations between Contemporaneous Job Corps Performance Measures and Impact Estimates from the National Job Corps Study
DescriptionThis study explores associations between performance measures used by Job Corps and estimates of impacts for individual Job Corps centers. The analysis relies on data gathered in 1994-1996 in the course of Mathematica’s National Job Corps Study (NJCS), a rigorous random assignment evaluation of the program, and Job Corps’ contemporaneous administrative data. The NJCS found that Job Corps centers …
PopulationYouth
ProgramJob Corps