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The Effects of Customer Choice: First Findings from the Individual Training Account Experiment.

Perez-Johnson, Irma; McConnell, Sheena; Decker, Paul; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2004

This report presents early findings from the evaluation of the ITA experiment, which aims to provide federal, state, and local policymakers with information on the effectiveness of, and trade-offs inherent in, three different approaches to managing customer choice in Workforce Investment Act...

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Evaluating Grants to Build Collaborations Between the Workforce Investment System and Faith- and Community-Based Organizations.

McConnell, Sheena; Derr, Michelle; Burwick, rew; Max, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2006

This report provides initial findings from Mathematica’s evaluation, based on information about grantees’ activities collected from interviews with staff at workforce investment boards, intermediaries, One-Stop Career Centers, and FBCOs during the first-quarter of 2005. It describes...

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Designing a National Evaluation of an Ongoing Program: Lessons from the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Gold Standard Evaluation.

McConnell, Sheena - Mathematica Policy Research - 2013

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Building Relationships Between the Workforce Investment System and Faith-Based and Community Organizations.

McConnell, Sheena; Burwick, rew; Derr, Michelle; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2005

This report provides a foundation for Mathematica’s evaluation by reviewing the literature concerning partnerships between the workforce investment system and FBCOs. The report describes what is already known about the benefits of collaborations, as well as barriers and promotion strategies.

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National Job Corps Study and Longer-Term Follow-Up Study: Impact and Benefit-Cost Findings Using Survey and Summary Earnings Records Data.

Schochet, Peter Z.; Burghardt, John; McConnell, Sheena - Mathematica Policy Research - 2006

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Neither Easy Nor Cheap.

McConnell, Sheena; Schochet, Peter; Martini, Alberto - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011

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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365

Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...

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Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370

Clemens, Michael; Graham, Colum; Howes, Stephen - 2014

Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...

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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363

Clemens, Michael - 2014

Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...

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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

Clemens, Michael - 2010

globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …

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