A thoughtfully designed, repurposed, creatively used employee survey can solve this and many other measurement problems. Who is in a better position to comment knowledgeably about matters such as internal business processes and learning and development than the front‐line employees who do the...

This paper provides one of the first detailed analyses of the training and finances of school-to-work (STW) programs in the United States. The data are from case studies of seven STW programs sponsored by firms of diverse size, type, and location. In almost every case, the firm paid at least...

This paper is a report of a study of efforts to use the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey to estimate the effect that CETA has had on the posttraining earnings of participants. Particular attention is given to developing estimates that are free of selection bias-whether it results from...

Recently, the Job Training Partnership Act has been implemented with the explicit purpose of moving economically disadvantaged individuals toward economic indepen dence through the provision of training. Ideally, we wish to know whether this type of training is a cost-effective expenditure.

Concerns about U.S. competitiveness have increasingly focused the attention of policymakers on the workforce and mechanisms that could be used to enhance both the quality and quantity of human capital in the workplace. This article focuses on basic skills education of hourly workers, precisely...

This article examines the literature that estimates parental expenditures on children; describes the types of child support guidelines that are being used by the states; and compares how the child support awards that emerge from each state's guidelines compare to the empirical estimates of...