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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED346307 AUTHOR: Bloom, Howard S.; And Others
TITLE: The National JTPA Study: Title II-A Impacts on
Earnings and Employment at 18 Months. Executive Summary.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1992
NOTE: 43 p.; For a related document, see ED 320 010.
ABSTRACT: A study was made of the impact of Job Training
Partnership Act (JTPA) Title II-A on the earnings and
employment of four target groups (adult women and men and
female and male out-of-school youth) over the first 18
months after random assignment to a treatment group that
had access to the program or a control group, which did
not. The study involved 17,000 JTPA applicants throughout
the country from November 1987 through September 1989.
Follow-up interviews were conducted at least 18 months
after assignment to one of the groups. Some of the findings
were the following: (1) JTPA Title II-A had generally
positive effects on the earnings and employment of adults
in the study sites; (2) access to the program increased the
average earnings of the adult women in the treatment group
by an estimated $539 or 7 percent of the control group
mean; (3) earnings of adult men rose $550 or 4.5 percent
over that of the control group, and 2.8 percent more of the
enrolled men were employed than the control group; (4) the
program had little or no effect on the average earnings of
female youth; and (5) the program reduced the earnings of
male youth by $854 (8 percent). Findings were influenced by
barriers to employment such as race, language, and
ethnicity. The study concluded that JTPA is helping to
raise the earnings of many people, especially adults, but
it also is not helping some groups. It suggested finding
new ways to serve such populations. (11 references) (KC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adult-Basic-Education; Blacks-; Dropouts-;
Employment-Level; Females-; Males-;
Postsecondary-Education; Wages-; Whites-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Adults-; *Employment-Programs; *Federal
Programs; *Job-Training; *Out-of-School-Youth; *Program
Effectiveness
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