New evidence on the long-term effects of employment training programs
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The effects of the National Supported Work (NSW) experiment and the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) project on participants were studied. The study was conducted to gauge the effect of the project eight years after participants received training. Results show that the NSW project condiderably increased the estimated earnings of AFDC recipients. However, the effect of NSW on youth participants were considered negligible. Overall, the study presents a favorable assessment of NSW.
Publication Name: Journal of Labor Economics
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0734-306X
Year: 1992
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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment
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In the United States, African-American men are much less likely than white men to be self-employed. Study results indicate some of the likely causes of this discrepancy. For blacks, the rate of transition into self-employment is about half that of whites and the rate of transition out of self-employment is twice that of whites. Furthermore, black men and white men exhibit significant differences in education level, asset possession, and chance of having a father who is self-employed.
Publication Name: Journal of Labor Economics
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0734-306X
Year: 1999
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Measuring Program Impacts on Earnings and Employment: Do Unemployment Insurance Wage Reports from Employers Agree with Surveys of Individuals?
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Study results suggest that individual follow-up surveys and unemployment insurance (UI) wage records, when used to measure the impact of government employment- and earnings-enhancement programs, produce similar estimates. In fact, the estimates provided by the two sources are nearly identical, when expressed as a control-group percentage. It is much less expensive, however, to use UI wage records than to to conduct follow-up surveys.
Publication Name: Journal of Labor Economics
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0734-306X
Year: 1999
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