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Issue: 1992-4
UI Research Exchange
DescriptionThe purpose of this analysis is to provide State agencies and others with an understanding of what coordination and linkage programs the individual States have implemented, what are the components of such systems, and how these components fit together as a system. … … U.S. Department of …
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Issue: 1992-3
Employer Layoff and Recall Practices
DescriptionThis report on employer layoff and recall practices is part of a continuing effort by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) to explore the needs of dislocated workers, i.e., those who have been laid off from their jobs. It attempts to answer the questions, ?When workers are laid off, how many more are recalled, and, of those recalled, how many choose to return to the employer that laid …
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Issue: 1992-2
Self Employment Programs for Unemployed Workers
DescriptionThis paper brings together four papers dealing with self-employment for the unemployed. The first chapter presents an overview of microenterprise as an employment option; a review of the Western European experience with self-employment programs for the unemployed; the two U.S. self-employment demonstration projects; and policy analysis of this issue as a policy option in the United States. This …
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Issue: 1992-1
Pennsylvania Reemployment Bonus Demonstration Final Report
DescriptionThe Unemployment Insurance (UI) program provides short-term income support to involuntarily unemployed individuals while they seek work. Historically, the UI program has used administrative work-search requirements and employment-service referrals to the Job Service (JS) to promote rapid reemployment. In recent years, however, considerable policy interest has been expressed in providing …
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Issue: 1992
Profiling the Literacy Proficiencies of JTPA and ES/UI Populations: Final Report to the Department of Labor
DescriptionThis comprehensive literacy assessment --- dealing with prose, document. and quantitative tasks --- provides results that profile a national sample of nearly 20 million participants in the U.S. Department of Labor programs that target people who are unemployed and seeking work or those in search of better jobs. The programs comprise by far the largest component of Labor's Employment and Training …
PopulationAdult
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 1992
Practical Guidance for Strengthening Private Industry Councils
DescriptionThe Private Industry Council (PIC) is the cornerstone of the service delivery system under the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). In partnership with the local elected official (LEO), the PIC is responsible for developing the local job training plan that describes planned services, procedures for identifying and recruiting participants, performance goals, budgets, and methods for selecting …
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Issue: 1992
Dilemmas in Youth Employment Programming: Findings from the Youth Research and Technical Assistance Project, Volume II
DescriptionThis report presents findings of 10 studies of youth programs (with bibliographies). It explores the services and techniques that best prepare young people for careers; the strategies for most effective delivery of youth job and training services; and the youth, environmental, and labor-market factors which must be addressed in service provision. … … … Brandeis University … Public/Private …
PopulationYouth, Youth
Research MethodologyLiterature Review
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Issue: 1992
Beyond the School Doors: The Literacy Needs of Job Seekers Served by the U.S. Department of Labor
DescriptionThe findings of this report underscore how far we have to go to meet the President's and Governors' National Goal for the Year 2000, that "every American will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy...." This comprehensive literacy assessment--dealing with prose, document, and quantitative tasks--provides results that profile a national …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 1992
Economic Change and the American Workforce
DescriptionThis report asserts that U.S. economic changes are significantly affecting the nation's workers and calls-for adoption of a new workforce-development agenda. The report is based on studies of economic forces in Colorado, Indiana, Mississippi, and Missouri (states considered broadly representative of the nation as a whole) and of public and private responses to these forces. It recommends creating …
Research MethodologyLiterature Review
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Issue: 1992
Training and Employment Report of the Secretary of Labor: Covering the Period July 1988 - September 1990
DescriptionThe annual Training and Employment Report of the Secretary of Labor describes the programs operated by the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) during Program Years 1988 and 1989 (July 1988 through June 1990) and Fiscal Year 1989 and 1990 (October 1988 through September 1990). … Frances Oliver … Michael Landini … William Sheehan … Oliver & …
Research MethodologyLiterature Review