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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2013
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two … compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328972
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Do public employment and training programs work?
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
the U.S. Workforce Investment Act (WIA) using administrative data on 160,000 participants from 12 states for up to four … years following program entry. We find that participants in the WIA Adult program, who typically enter with poor work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331912
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Non-experimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia I.; … - 2016
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two … compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555513
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New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
Mueser, Peter R.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Troske, Kenneth R. - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2010
Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, based on administrative data from 12 states …, covering approximately 160,000 WIA participants and nearly 3 million comparison group members. The key measure of interest is … the increment in average quarterly earnings or employment attributable to WIA program participation for those who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677115
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two … compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276081
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Do public employment and training programs work?
Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
the U.S. Workforce Investment Act (WIA) using administrative data on 160,000 participants from 12 states for up to four … years following program entry. We find that participants in the WIA Adult program, who typically enter with poor work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221107
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Does federally-funded job training work? : non-experimental estimates of WIA training impacts using longitudinal data on workers and firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2016
In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536178
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Does federally-funded job training work? : nonexperimental estimates of WIA training impacts using longitudinal data on workers and firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2013
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two … compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191301
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What Works in Work-First Welfare: Designing and Managing Employment Programs in New York City
Feldman, Andrew R. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This book is a case study of how New York City's welfare-to-work programs were managed and implemented in the mid 2000s. Feldman also analyzes the unique characteristics that differentiate it from other programs in place across the country.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852092
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: The Role of Workforce Programs
Barnow, Burt S.; Hobbie, Richard A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This book examines the nature of the workforce development and UI policy decisions made nationwide in response to the recession, state and local administrators’ perspectives on the policy developments and economic challenges, and implementation of key Recovery Act provisions, with a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850075