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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
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Issue: 1992
Report on Policy Academy on Families and Children at Risk
DescriptionIn 1989, the Council of Governors' Policy Advisors (CGPA) received funding for its State Policy Academy on Families and Children At Risk. This Academy was designed to support state governments in their attempts to improve family well-being. This report describes the results achieved by the 10 Family Academy states and offers specific guidance to others who wish to make similar efforts. Chapter …
PopulationYouth
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 1992
Study of the Implementation of the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act
DescriptionThis report summarizes the findings from the first phase of a 3- year study of the implementation of the Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance (EDWAA) Act performed for the U.S. Department of Labor, based on the implementation experience of 15 states and 30 substate areas during Program Year 1989. This first phase consisted of case study investigations to asses the progress in …
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Issue: 1992
Dilemmas in Youth Employment Programming: Findings from the Youth Research and Technical Assistance Project
DescriptionSince the 196Os, the U.S. Department of Labor has underwritten a variety of programs and strategies designed to help youth make first connections with the labor market. These programs have been enacted under a succession of policy mandates, administrative structures, funding levels and political philosophies. Thus, their focus, scope and results have shifted, often dramatically, over the years. …
PopulationYouth
Research MethodologyLiterature Review
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Issue: 1992
Coordination of Housing and Job Training Services:A Review of Best Practices in 12 Cities
DescriptionEditor's Note: The following synopsis is based on materials extracted directly from the document. Job training and housing programs attack two of the most critical problems of low-income families: the need for training in skills that will enable them to secure stable and gainful employment; and the need for decent, safe, and affordable housing. In November 1990, the secretaries of Labor and …
PopulationAdult
Research MethodologyQualitative Analysis
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Issue: 1991-4
Evaluation of the Impacts of the Washington Initative Work Search Experiment
DescriptionThis work search experiment was conducted in Tacoma, Washington. It tested four work search approaches that ranged in philosophy from an ";exception-reporting"; approach with no specific work search directives or monitoring to an intensive reemployment assistance early in the unemployment spell. Approximately 10,000 new unemployment insurance (UI) claimants were randomly assigned to one of the …
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Issue: 1991-3
The Cyclical Effects of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Program
DescriptionThis report presents an analysis of the effect of the unemployment insurance program as an automatic stabilizer and of recent changes in that effect. The report discusses the theoretical reasons that would enable the UI program to stabilize, to some extent, the business cycle; then presents some previous empirical evidence of this effect. It reviews the empirical literature concerning the ability …