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Product Description: This volume examines the objectives of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and the evidence on its program performance and impact. The chapters address five broad issues: 1) understanding WIA, 2) program implementation, 3) performance management, 4) impact evaluations, and 5) future evaluation choices...read more

Product Description: This book provides a detailed insider's view under the Clinton and Bush administrations of the process by which eight social science experiments influenced federal laws and policies to alleviate joblessness in the United States. These experiments, each of which focused on returning unemployed workers to work, are analyzed through their entire policy process: experiment initiation, implementation, and evaluation; policy development; legislative enactment; program development; and program implementation...read more

This book provides a broad overview of federally funded job training programs as they exist today. The notable list of contributors review what training consists of and how training programs are implemented under WIA. In particular, they examine training service providers and methods of delivering training services, including the use of individual training accounts and eligible training provider lists. Performance management under WIA is examined, as well as the effectiveness of training programs. In addition, public training programs are compared to private training provided in the United States and to public training programs offered in other industrial nations.

Product Description: "More and better jobs" is the underlying theme of this insightful new book. David Levine analyzes the current labor market in the U.S. and concludes that social policy must change to cope with the realities of the new economy. Although market forces are now moving U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Is America herself being downsized or are the changes in the work force and standards of living of her citizens going to go up, down or nowhere because of it? Is anyone doing anything about it? Should the welfare reforms going on in some states be national and it welfare people are required to work - what if there are no jobs? Will it be a country of relatively affluent and nervous suburbs surrounding heavily armed and anxious poor inner cities or will it be a country where the citizens all have a chance to live decent lives? This book brings together contributions which try to deal with some these crucial questions...read more