ERIC Number: ED282061
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Aug
Pages: 298
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Virginia Employment Services Program. Final Report.
Riccio, James; And Others
This report updates the interim Virginia Employment Services Program (ESP) participation patterns and examines program success in mandating job search participation. Following an introductory chapter, chapter 2 discusses research design, sample, and data sources. (The sample contained 1,287 Work Incentive Program applicants and 1,897 recipients.) Chapter 3 discusses the nature of ESP activities and extent of enrollee participation. It analyzes cumulative participation patterns, presents a detailed assessment of program success in reaching its targeted caseload, describes activities in which enrollees participated, considers participation of important subgroups within the target population, and examines participation patterns over time. Chapter 4 describes short- and longer-term impacts. It shows modest gains in employment for the experimental group in the short run and employment impacts for the full sample almost entirely from stronger gains for applicants, not recipients. Applicants in particular show longer-term program effects that continue the story of the full sample's short-term gains. Chapter 5 analyzes ESP costs and benefits. It indicates that ESP enrollees, and applicants in particular, had increased earnings that exceeded their increased tax payments as well as their losses in welfare and in payments from other transfer programs. Benefits to the government budget are also shown. Supplementary tables are appended. (YLB)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Services, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship, Job Search Methods, Participation, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, State Programs, Statewide Planning, Welfare Recipients
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
Sponsor: Virginia State Dept. of Social Services, Richmond.; Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY.
Identifiers - Location: Virginia
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