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Unterman, Rebecca; Haider, Zeest – MDRC, 2019
In 2002, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) launched a bold set of education reforms designed to transform the educational experiences of all high school students: They instituted a district-wide high school choice process that assigned all rising ninth-graders to specific high schools; they closed large, low-performing high…
Descriptors: School Choice, Academic Persistence, Small Schools, Labor Market
Schaberg, Kelsey – MDRC, 2017
Individuals with low incomes often struggle to advance in the labor market, yet at the same time, some employers report difficulty finding workers with the necessary skills. WorkAdvance is a workforce development model that seeks to address the needs of both of these groups through its "dual customer" approach. The model offers training…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Models, Training Methods, Low Income Groups
Hossain, Farhana; Terwelp, Emily – MDRC, 2015
In the past four decades, profound changes in the U.S. economy--including falling wages, widening inequality, and the polarization of jobs at the top and bottom of the education and wage distributions--have had dramatic implications for the labor-market fortunes of young adults. Only about half of young people ages 16 to 24 held jobs in 2014, and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Young Adults, Economically Disadvantaged, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Miller, Cynthia; Millenky, Megan; Schwartz, Lisa; Goble, Lisbeth; Stein, Jillian – MDRC, 2016
Young people have been hit especially hard by changes in the labor market over the past decades. Unemployment among 16- to 24-year-olds increased the most of any age group during the recent recession, and remains more than double that among older adults. The unemployment rate is especially high for young people without high school diplomas.…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Unemployment, Youth Programs, Vocational Education
Miller, Cynthia; Deitch, Victoria; Hill, Aaron – MDRC, 2011
The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project evaluated strategies to promote employment stability among low-income workers. This practitioner brief examines the work, education, and training patterns of single parents in the ERA project. Three years after entering the study, only one in four single parents had advanced. Most of the…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Labor Market, One Parent Family, Program Effectiveness
Anderson, Jacquelyn; Kato, Linda Yuriko; Riccio, James A.; Blank, Susan – MDRC, 2006
Since 1998, federally funded One-Stop Service Centers around the country have focused primarily on assisting the unemployed into work. WASC tests a strategy that expands that mission by targeting people who are already working, but at low wages. Through career coaching, skills training, and better connections with employers - and led by a newly…
Descriptors: Income, Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Labor Market
Miller, Cynthia; Bos, Johannes M.; Porter, Kristin E.; Tseng, Fannie M.; Abe, Yasuyo – MDRC, 2005
Succeeding in the labor market depends now more than ever on having the right education and training. This reality poses a particular challenge for out-of-school youth, who are no longer connected to institutions designed to provide them with training and connect them to good jobs. The Center for Employment Training (CET) in San Jose, California,…
Descriptors: Credentials, Out of School Youth, Labor Market, Job Training
Miller, Cynthia; Porter, Kristin E. – MDRC, 2005
This paper examines employment and earnings over a four-year period for a group of disadvantaged out-of-school youth who entered the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Training (CET) Replication Sites between 1995 and 1999. It assesses the importance of three key factors as barriers to employment: lack of a high school diploma, having…
Descriptors: Wages, Females, Dropouts, Out of School Youth