Leigh examines nine demonstration projects and operating programs to determine how well public retraining programs for displaced workers fulfill their roles.

This paper provides new evidence about the payoffs to community colleges’ terminal training programs as distinct from their traditional transfer function. Using NLSY data, we offer three main findings. First, fouryear college graduates who started at a community college are not at a...

The governments of most industrial countries provide financial support for adult training programs intended to retrain displaced workers. The author draws lessons from the experience of six industrial countries (Australia, Britain, Canada, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) on how to design...

This paper extends the discussion of the burden of the draft as a tax to Abstract whether draftee-casualties in time of war are distributed in an equitable manner. Clearly, horizontal equity did not exist for the draftee since so few draft-age males were required to serve; horizontal equity in...

This article examines a voluntary workfare demonstration program in Washington state-the Family Independence Program (FIP)-designed to encourage longer-term investments in employment and training (E&T) activities, with the ultimate objective of achieving economic self-sufficiency for welfare...

The literature on the narrowing of the gender wage gap during the 1980s considers, among other factors, the closing of the male-female differential in post-secondary education. This paper looks specifically at the role played by the dramatic relative increase in women's enrollment in two-year...

This paper investigates the impact of unionism on the pension benefits workers expect to receive on retirement. The valuation of future benefits by workers, rather than actual employer expenditures on pensions, is examined because expected benefits should be the more important variable in...

Examines racial differences in the union impact on nonwage labor outcomes, the exit propensity of individual workers, and opportunities for occupational upgrading. Determinants of exit behavior; Discriminatory practices of industrial unions; Results for exit behavior. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Examination of the racial differences in labor force participation rates among males in low-income urban areas obtained from the 1970 Census of Population in the United States. Impact of nominal wage rate on worker participation; Use of regression analysis for study samples; Relationship between...

This paper re-examines the question, recently raised in this journal by Bloch and Kuskin, of whether wages are determined differently in the union and nonunion sectors. Whereas Bloch and Kuskin employed ordinary least squares to estimate separate wage equations for the two sectors, this study...