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Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2018
The Worker Retraining (WRT) program is a key strategy in meeting the economic and workforce needs of Washington's workers and employers. Funded through the state legislature, the aim of WRT is to ensure dislocated and other unemployed workers have access to education and training that will help them reattach to the labor market in jobs and careers…
Descriptors: Job Training, Retraining, Employment Programs, State Programs
Walton, Douglas; Judkins, David; Kolenikov, Stas; Schalk, Marci; Smith, Adrienne – Abt Associates, 2020
This document includes seven technical appendices that accompany the main report, "Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program: Round 4 Early Outcomes Study Report." The appendices include: (1) Baseline Data; (2) Follow-up Survey Data; (3) Unemployment Insurance Wage Data; (4) Service Impacts; (5)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Development, Grants, Federal Programs
Baird, Matthew D.; Engberg, John; Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Goughnour, Thomas; Gutierrez, Italo A.; Karam, Rita T. – RAND Corporation, 2019
The Office of Workforce Development (OWD) in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor, implemented Career Pathways, an innovative program designed to increase the local talent pool and help lower-skilled, unemployed, and underemployed individuals train for work in growing fields. RAND Corporation researchers evaluated…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Job Training, Job Skills, Program Effectiveness
Alon, Titan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This paper builds a model of human capital accumulation driven by increasing specialization of the workforce. Individuals increase the efficiency of time dedicated to human capital acquisition by focusing investments on narrower sets of skills. The evolution of secondary and post-secondary curricula in the United States from 1870-2000 confirms the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Specialization, Labor Force, Efficiency
Hamilton, Gayle; Michalopoulos, Charles – MDRC, 2016
There is a longstanding debate about whether helping welfare recipients quickly find work or helping them to first obtain some basic education and training better improves their economic well-being. This brief contributes to the debate by presenting long-term findings from three sites in the seven-site National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work…
Descriptors: Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Education Work Relationship, Vocational Education
Johnson, Melissa; Bashay, Molly; Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda – National Skills Coalition, 2019
The ethnic and racial diversity of the residents of the United States of America is one of the country's unique strengths; however, Black, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Native, and certain Asian American workers face wide racial inequities in educational attainment, employment, and income. Additional workforce policies are needed now to counter…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Minority Groups, Racial Bias, Equal Education
Nsowah-Nuamah, Nicholas; Teal, Francis; Awoonor-Williams, Moses – Comparative Education, 2012
On the basis of official statistics, poverty has halved in Ghana over the period from 1991 to 2005. Our objective in this paper is to assess how far this fall was linked to the creation of better paying jobs and the increase in education. We find that earnings rose rapidly in the period from 1998 to 2005, by 64% for men and by 55% for women. While…
Descriptors: Evidence, Poverty, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment
Lerman, Robert I. – Future of Children, 2010
Young, minority, and poorly educated fathers in fragile families have little capacity to support their children financially and are hard-pressed to maintain stability in raising those children. In this article, Robert Lerman examines the capabilities and contributions of unwed fathers, how their capabilities and contributions fall short of those…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Job Training, Financial Support, Fathers

Bassi, Laurie J. – Journal of Human Resources, 1983
Describes a study of efforts to use the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey to estimate the effect that the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) has had on the post-training earnings of participants. Results indicate that CETA has had a positive and often significant effect on the earnings of participants, and that women benefited…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Employment Opportunities, Income, Job Training

Gillum, F. E. "Skip"; Davies, Timothy Gray – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2003
Reports on a three-phase study that examined the relationship between earning power and the successful completion of a program of study at a community college. Discusses the impact this issue may have on state legislators examining the role of the community college. Urges collection of hard data for presentation to legislators. (Contains 23…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Compensation (Remuneration), Economic Impact, Employment Level
Sandell, Steven H.; Shapiro, David – 1976
This paper discusses specification and interpretation of human capital models of women's earnings when data on actual work experience are available. It uses the segmented earnings function framework developed by Jacob Mincer and Solomon Polachek and considers the effects of data errors, issues involving data interpretation, consequences of model…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Background, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Bloom, Howard S.; McLaughlin, Maureen A. – 1982
In preparation for the scheduled expiration of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation at the end of fiscal year 1982, background information was gathered to analyze the effects of CETA training on participants' post-program earnings. An analysis was made of information gathered on persons over 24-years-old who entered a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Disadvantaged, Employment Level
Ghazalah, I. A. – 1993
The sixth annual study of the economic performance of 15,055 graduates in 1979 of 14 vocational programs in Ohio used federal income tax records. Twelve of the programs with 13,109 graduates were secondary vocational programs. A total of 1,946 students graduated from 2 associate programs. The income of completers of vocational programs was…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Comparative Analysis, Educational Status Comparison, Employment Patterns
Ghazalah, I. A. – 1993
A 1987 study that examined the economic performance of 23,500 graduates in 1983 of 14 vocational programs in Ohio used federal income tax records. Twelve of the programs with 21,857 graduates were at the secondary level, and 2 with 1,643 graduates were at the associate level. The incomes of vocational graduates were compared to income of…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Comparative Analysis, Educational Status Comparison, Employment Patterns
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2000
This document provides information on the nature, working conditions, and employment opportunities of 42 industries that accounted for nearly 3 of 4 wage and salary jobs in 1998. The following are among the types of information provided for each industry discussed: (1) nature of the industry (goods produced and services provided, individual…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
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