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Analysis of Associations Between Contemporaneous Job Corps Performance Measures and Impact Estimates from the National Job Corps Study.

Fortson, Jane; Schochet, Peter Z. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011

Conducted in 1993, the National Job Corps Study (NJCS) found Job Corps improved education and training outcomes, reduced criminal activity, and improved earnings and employment outcomes. However, impacts on key outcomes were not associated with overall center performance measures. This study...

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Does Job Corps Work? Summary of the National Job Corps Study

Burghardt, John; Schochet, Peter Z.; McConnell, Sheena; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2001

Summarizes the main findings from a series of other reports on the study. Concludes that centers deliver comprehensive and consistent services. Furthermore, Job Corps makes a meaningful difference in educational attainment and earnings; gains are found across most groups of students and types of...

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Analysis of Associations Between Contemporaneous Job Corps Performance Measures and Impact Estimates from the National Job Corps Study.

Fortson, Jane; Schochet, Peter Z. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010609001

Evaluation of the Impact of the Job Corps Program: Third Follow-Up Report.

Mallar, Charles; Kerachsky, Stuart; Thornton, Craig; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 1982

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National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants' Employment and Related Outcomes.

Schochet, Peter; Burghardt, John; Glazerman, Steven - Mathematica Policy Research - 2000

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Evidence Scan of Work Experience Programs.

Sattar, Samina - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

This report presents evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that include work experience as a strategy to improve employment outcomes for people with barriers to employment. The report reviews 26 years of rigorous research gathering information from 27 evaluations. The author...

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Seniority, External Labor Markets, and Faculty Pay

Brown, Byron W.; Woodbury, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995

We estimate the returns to seniority (the wage-tenure profile) for university faculty, and the degree to which these returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on faculty at a Big Ten university (ours), we estimate...

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The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Houseman, Susan N.; Kalleberg, Arne L.; Erickcek, George A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001

tight labor markets of the 1990s. Based on case study evidence from the hospital and auto supply industries, we evaluate …

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Aggregate Effects in Local Labor Markets of Supply and Demand Shocks

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999

Anti-poverty policy in the U.S. has emphasized labor supply policies, such as welfare reform or job training. Anti …-poverty policy in the U.S. has not emphasized policies to increase labor demand for the poor, such as public employment or … different groups? This paper estimates and simulates a model with several types of labor, using data from the Current Population …

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The Effects of Local Labor Demand on Individual Labor Market Outcomes for Diffrerent Demographic Groups and the Poor

Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Economists have traditionally had a keen interest in the effects of overall labor demand on the economic well-being of … to local data to determine the effects of labor demand. The wide variety of demand conditions in local economies create a … "natural laboratory" for determining the true effects of overall labor demand. These recent studies generally find that …

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