IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/revpol/v11y1992i1p40-53.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Worker Perspectives on the Private Financing of Government‐Sponsored Dislocated Worker Programs

Author

Listed:
  • Robert G. Sheets
  • Yuan Ting

Abstract

This study analyzes worker perspectives on the financing responsibilities of businesses, workers and government for dislocated worker programs that provide job search and retraining assistance to unemployed workers. It is based on a survey of 1,555 experienced workers in Illinois. Joint business and worker financing approaches were the most favored and least polarizing financing alternative. In contrast, the government grant approach was extremely polarizing with significant support but strong negative reaction among higher‐income, white, and college‐educated workers. Surprisingly strong negative reaction was also found among lower‐income, blue‐collar workers. The results are consistent with related research on the conservative attitudes of American workers toward social welfare programs.

Suggested Citation

  • Robert G. Sheets & Yuan Ting, 1992. "Worker Perspectives on the Private Financing of Government‐Sponsored Dislocated Worker Programs," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 11(1), pages 40-53, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:11:y:1992:i:1:p:40-53
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1992.tb00331.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-1338.1992.tb00331.x
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1541-1338.1992.tb00331.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:11:y:1992:i:1:p:40-53. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ipsonea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.