Barron, Berger, and Black pulling together in one place answers to important questions regarding access to training opportunities, the duration of OJT across workers who differ by job and personal characteristics, and how accurately we are able to measure training.

This book provides a broad overview of federally funded job training programs as they exist today. The notable list of contributors review what training consists of and how training programs are implemented under WIA. In particular, they examine training service providers and methods of...

Ahlstrand, Bassi, and McMurrer's study addresses five key research questions, including: 1) how much training is provided to lower-wage workers; 2) who tends to provide this training; 3) what are the barriers and enablers to effective training; 4) what roles do supply and demand play in...

This volume reveals how, as a result of policy reforms at the national, state, and local levels, programming by different institutions converged with innovative professional practices to transform the employment services industry. The contributors show how these reforms spurred employment...

The authors provide an in-depth analysis of an incumbent worker training program funded through California's unemployment insurance taxes.

Bernick organizes the operational and policy lessons he learned from his five-year tenure as EDD director (and for more than 25 years in the job training field) into “Ten Principles." These principles, enlightened by the successes and failures of several training programs implemented in...

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

Bloom presents findings from the Texas Worker Adjustment Demonstration, a 2,192-person randomized experimental evaluation of reemployment programs for displaced workers conducted at three sites in Texas. This project demonstrated that a relatively inexpensive mix of job-search assistance and...