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Issue: 1994
Evaluation of the JTPA Title IV Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Program
DescriptionThis report summarizes the results of a study that investigated the JTPA Title IV, Section 402 program for migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFWs). The program, administered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) through 53 grants, assists farmworkers in obtaining or retaining upgraded agricultural or non-agricultural employment, and provides services to farmworkers and their families that will …
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Issue: 1993-2
New Forms of Activity for the Unemployed and Measures to Assist the Creation of Self-Employment: Experiences and Opportunities in Combatting Unemployment
DescriptionAt its 23rd meeting held in Vienna in September 1989, the General Assembly of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) decided to include a study on ?New Forms of Activity for the Unemployed and Measures to Assist the Creation of Self-Employment: Experiences and Opportunities in Combating Unemployment? in the program of activities of the Permanent Committee on Unemployment Insurance …
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyLiterature Review
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Issue: 1993-1
Unemployment Insurance and Employer Layoffs
DescriptionThe Unemployment Insurance (UI) system finances benefits to unemployed workers by taxing employer payroll in all states and employee earnings in a few states. Benefit payments to unemployed workers reduce their costs of unemployment, and these UI incentives on employment, unemployment and reemployment have been analyzed extensively. The UI financing mechanism also affects firm hire and layoff …
ProgramUnemployment Insurance
Research MethodologyQuantitative Analysis
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Issue: 1993
Summary of State Reports On Coordination Between Vocational Education and JTPA
DescriptionThis publication summarizes reports that the Perkins Act (as amended in 1990) requires states to submit biannually to the U.S. Department of Education (with copies to the Labor Department) on state Voced/JTPA coordination. The reports are from 41 jurisdictions and cover the period October 1990 through September 1992. Findings reflect that the restructuring of the U.S. economy for high skills and …
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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 …