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Author: Alan Werner
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780877667247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers comprehensive, practical advice on conducting implementation studies in the context of program evaluation.
Author: Gayle Hamilton
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Demetra S. Nightingale
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780877666233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecommends a redefined social contract that takes into account realities of the job market and the transitory sense of the assistance.
Author: Frances Julia Riemer
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0791490734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorking at the Margins describes and analyzes the move, from welfare rolls to paid employment, of adults who were marginalized from the mainstream by race, ethnicity, language, and economic status. Frances Julia Riemer utilizes ethnographic data gathered over two years from four workplaces that employed thirty seven former welfare recipients. She examines how the private sector accommodates these workers and their differences and how the workers themselves negotiate the barriers they experience. The book illustrates how government policies and adult-education initiatives, designed ostensibly to create opportunities, often reify existing inequalities.
Author: Burt S. Barnow
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780877666899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe labor market has changed dramatically in recent decades. In the 1980s an average of 2 million workers each year lost their jobs because of the increasingly global economy, rapid advances in technology, and corporate downsizing. During the same period, immigration increased and Congress passed welfare reform legislation that required many more Americans to join the workforce. Legislators have looked closely at federal job training programs in recent years, and in 1998 passed the two major acts mandating change. In Improving the Odds, experts on labor policy explore the effects of current programs on earnings and employment, recommend improvements in programs, and assess the methodologies used to measure their effectiveness. The editors offer several strategies to help policymakers design programs that fulfill the promise of keeping workers out of poverty. Contents: -Publicly Funded Training in a Changing Labour Market (Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King) -The Economic, Demographic, and Social Context of Future Employment and Training Programs (Frank Bennici, Steven Mangum, and A ndrew M. Sum) -Welfare Employment Programs: Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Employment and Training Activities (Lisa Plimpton and Demetra Smith Nightingale) -The Impact of Job Training Partnership Act Programs for Adult Welfare Recipients (Jodi Nudelman) -Training Success Stories for Adults and Out-of-School Youth: A Tale of Two States (Christopher T. King, with Jerome A. Olson, Leslie O. Lawson, Charles E. Trott, and John Baj) -Employment and Training Programs for Out-of-School Youth: Past Effects and Lessons for the Future (Robert I. Lerman) -Customized Training for Employers: Training People for Jobs That Exist and Employers Who Want to Hire Them (Kellie Isbell, John Trutko, and vBurt S. Barnow) -Training Programs for Dislocated Workers (Duane E. Leigh) -Methodologies for Determining the Effectiveness of Training Programs (Daniel Friedlander, David H. Greenberg, and Philip K. Robins) -Reflections on Training Policies and Programs (Garth L. Mangum) -Strategies for Improving the Odds (Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King).
Author: W. Steven Barnett
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780791436196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEstablishes the power of early care and education to change children's lives, particularly children in poverty.
Author: Mary Clare Lennon
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780877667148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sweeping changes of 1996's welfare reform legislation are more than just new policies. They represent a profound transformation of the character and structure of social policy institutions in the United States, a shift from a bureaucratic, centralized mode for income transfer, to a "professional" mode aimed at complex behavioral change. The evaluation community has responded with a shift from traditional impact analyses to implementation studies that get inside the skin of this new, more flexible structure. Implementation research explores the translation of concepts into working policies and programs, and evaluates how well the administrative and management dimensions of these policies work, and how the programs are experienced by all involved. Policy into Action offers state-of-the-art thinking on implementation research from leading policy researchers and evaluation practitioners.
