Abstract This paper reports the results of a telephone survey of state-level officials as to the influence of evaluations of three state welfare innovations: California's GAIN, New York's CAP, and Florida's Project Independence. The three experiments were known to those interviewed, yet they did...

Examines the circumstances and forms of adjustment to the particular needs of the individual plant or company within a bargaining unit and the plant or company subject to a strong well-defined wage pattern. Deviations within a bargaining unit; Example of formal contractual agreements to widen...

Examination of the method for evaluating the success of training programs. Use of the personnel records of employers to follow up on the progress of trainees; Methodology; Results and discussion. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

This study uses meta-analysis to synthesize findings from 31 evaluations of 15 voluntary government-funded training programs for the disadvantaged that operated between 1964 and 1998. On average, the earnings effects of the evaluated programs seem to have been largest for women, quite modest for...

This article describes how microsimulation analysis was used to help design a social experiment currently being conducted in two provinces in Canada. To the authors' knowledge, microsimu lation has never been used before for this purpose, although the technique has been used to assist...

This article argues that the existence of a wage subsidy as the sole component of an income transfer system is both unlikely and undesirable. A mixed wage subsidy-public assistance program is defined. Using traditional analysis and new graphical methods developed in the article, the effects on...