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Job Corps: The Urban Center as a Training Facility

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  • V. Lane Rawlins

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In this article an effort is made to evaluate the operations of urban Job Corps centers as training programs. The unique features of this training approach are described and the costs of operation are estimated from government data. In order to estimate the impact of training on earnings and employment, a multiple regression analysis is applied to a sample of 239 trainees from one urban center, using the personal and training characteristics of these trainees as independent variables. The dependent variable is earnings over the six-month period immediately following the training experience. Education on entry to the program, length of training, and completion of a training program are among the variables which appear to have a highly significant impact on post-training earnings. Even though costs are high, this type of training appears to have an important place in the nation's mix of manpower programs.

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  • V. Lane Rawlins, 1971. "Job Corps: The Urban Center as a Training Facility," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 6(2), pages 221-235.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:6:y:1971:i:2:p:221-235
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