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Returns To Education and Training for the Highly Disadvantaged

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  • Carolyn J. Heinrich

    (The University of Chicago)

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The author presents an evaluation of a job-training demonstration program that targeted highly disadvantaged individuals residing in a high unemployment community for delivery of custom ized job-training and intensive case-management and supportive services. She found that geographical targeting aided the effort to recruit and cost-effectively serve the highly disadvan taged. Despite their disadvantages, demonstration program participants achieved significantly higher wages and eamings at termination than did comparison group members, and the program produced a statistically significant earnings impact for participants over a 2-year period. Participants who received on-the-job training experienced the largest earnings gains, although on average, the program's effects diminished over time. The author recommends extending the provision of intensive case-management and supportive services into the postplacement period to increase employment retention.

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  • Carolyn J. Heinrich, 1998. "Returns To Education and Training for the Highly Disadvantaged," Evaluation Review, , vol. 22(5), pages 637-667, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:evarev:v:22:y:1998:i:5:p:637-667
    DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9802200504
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    1. John D. Kasarda, 1990. "City Jobs and Residents on a Collision Course: The Urban Underclass Dilemma," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 4(4), pages 313-319, November.
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    1. Michael White, 2004. "Effective Job Search Practice in the UK's Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programme for Youth," PSI Research Discussion Series 17, Policy Studies Institute, UK.
    2. Carolyn J. Heinrich & Rachel Gordon, 2002. "Is a Family-focused Program More Effective in Helping Low-Income Parents Enter the Workforce? Insights from a Multimethod Evaluation of the Jobs for Youth/Full Family Partnership Demonstration," JCPR Working Papers 271, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.

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