The YIEPP offered a minimum wage job, part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer, to 16-19-year-olds from low-income households who had not as yet graduated from high school and who were enrolled in school. Our finding of large positive employment effects for this...

This study examines the impacts of the General Equivalency Diploma (GED) certificate and other secondary and post-secondary credentials on labor market outcomes for women. It uses data from the NLSY Mother and Children file and the Washington State Family Income Study (FIS). Correcting for...

Presents quantitative content to the discussion of labor force transformation. Process of labor force adjustment; Major costs and risks involved in labor force adjustment for both the individual and society; Comparison of expected capital values of the highest and lowest investment alternatives...

The economic costs and benefits of government-sponsored retraining of the long-term unemployed in West Virginia from 1959 through 1964 are examined and analyzed in this study of the post-training labor market experience of 879 Trainees, Nontrainees, and other groups. A multivariate analysis was...

This study compares the costs of vocational and comprehensive secondary education and the labor market performances of graduates of these two types of high schools who did not attend college. The measurements of the labor market performances are in terms of earnings and employment. The data were...