Job creation and destruction; What employers want: Job prospects for less-educated workers; and does training for the disadvantaged work? Evidence from the national JTPA study
✍ Scribed by Rebecca M. Blank
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-8739
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✦ Synopsis
These three books all discuss the labor market and labor market policies, although their particular focus varies widely. All of them provide valuable information on job prospects for less-skilled and low-wage workers. Given recent changes in public assistance programs that will force low-income families to rely more heavily on labor market earnings, the information in these books is of interest to those who want to design job search and job training programs, and who want to understand the potential problems that less-skilled workers will face in the years ahead.
Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work? is a summary volume that presents results from the national evaluation of the job programs for disadvantaged adults and youth funded by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Although JTPA funding is federal, the programs are designed and operated locally. Different localities provide a very different mix of training services. For instance, some areas provide much more funding for classroom training, whereas others focus more heavily on on-the-job training or job search assistance.
In the mid-1980's, the Department of Labor commissioned a major study of the effectiveness of JTPA programs. This evaluation used random assignment,