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Issue: 1993
Study of the Implementation of the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act--Phase II: Responsiveness of Services
DescriptionThis report summarizes findings from phase II of the three-year study of implementing EDWAA. Findings are based upon experiences of 10 states, 20 sub-state areas, and 10 special projects in Program Year 1990. The report assesses how effectively these providers have furthered EDWAA objectives, including building sub-state area capacities for planning and administering services, ensuring …
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Issue: 1993
Workplace Literacy and the Nation's Unemployed Workers
DescriptionThe 1990 Department of Labor Survey of Workplace Literacy assessed the workplace literacy levels of eligible applicants for JTPA training and of jobseekers in the Employment Service/Unemployment Insurance programs. Using the survey data, which included workplace literacy proficiency scores and data concerning various socio-economic and personal characteristics of the respondents, this study …
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Issue: 1993
The St. Louis Metropolitan Re-Employment Project: An Impact Evaluation
DescriptionThis report details the study of a St. Louis, Mo. dislocated-worker project under the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act. The project provided job search and placement, on-the-job and classroom training, and remediation. The report found that while participants earned less than members of a nonparticipant comparison group during four quarters after initial unemployment …
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Issue: 1993
Study of the Implementation of EDWAA: Report on the Survey of Substate Areas
DescriptionThe Study of the Implementation of the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Act (EDWAA) is designed to provide the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) with information about how states and substate areas are implementing the key features of the EDWAA legislation and to assist DOL in guiding the development of EDWAA programs. This report presents the findings of a survey of all substate areas …
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Issue: 1993
Finding One's Way: Career Guidance for Disadvantaged Youth
DescriptionThis study shows that career guidance programs have been generally beneficial in the Job Training Partnership Act and throughout the public educational system, but are seldom comprehensive or fully utilized. The study recommends that the programs address a wider range of youth career needs; offer activities more appropriate to successive ages and stages of adolescent development; emphasize …
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Issue: 1993
The National JTPA Study: Title II-A Impacts on Earnings And Employment at 18 Months
DescriptionThe National JTPA Study was commissioned by the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in 1986 to measure the impacts and costs of selected employment and training programs funded under Title II-A of the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982, which is targeted to serve economically disadvantaged Americans. This report presents interim estimates of program …
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Issue: 1993
Teaching the SCANS Competencies
DescriptionThis report compiles six articles that give education and training practitioners practical suggestions for applying SCANS in classroom and workplace. "SCANS in the Schools" helps educators incorporating SCANS competencies into curricula and instruction; it identifies issues likely to arise and exemplifies incorporation of specific competencies. "Implementing SCANS: First Lessons" highlights 10 …
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Issue: 1992-7
An Analysis of Pooled Evidence From the Pennsylvania and Washington Reemployment Bonus Demonstrations
DescriptionThis publication completes a major research effort conducted over the past eight years to determine the effectiveness of providing incentives to unemployed workers to speed their return to work. This effort represent a portion of a larger research program conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor to determine effective methods of providing reemployment assistance and/or incentives to unemployed …
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Issue: 1992-6
The Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment Final Report
DescriptionThe principal objective of unemployment insurance (UI) is to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement during periods of involuntary unemployment. In performing this income maintenance function, UI has the potential of prolonging spells of unemployment. Indeed, leading economists began publishing research findings in the 1970s strongly suggesting that UI tends …
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Issue: 1992-5
Papers and Materials Presented at the Unemployment Insurance Expert System Colloqium, June 1991
DescriptionThis publication contains a compilation of papers delivered at the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Expert System Colloquim. The indisputable progression of UI expert systems research is characteristic of the Federal-State partnership. Experiments conducted by State employment security agencies and funded by the U.S. Department of Labor have conclusively demonstrated the manifold uses of expert …