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5 Effectiveness of Occupational Skills Training Programs
Pages 108-118

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From page 108...
... and New Youth Initiatives in Apprenticeship -- that had substantial skills training components and were sufficiently well evaluated and documented to be subjects for our review. Yet each of these programs had special features that limit its applicability to broad segments of the youth population: the Job Corps is a residential program for out-of-school youths that includes much more than skills training; and the apprenticeship program required a close relationship between employers and school programs dealing with specialized skills.
From page 110...
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From page 111...
... It provides a range of services including remedial (basic) education, vocational skills training, and health care to enrollees for about 30 weeks (the average stay during the subject evaluation)
From page 112...
... · After an initial 6-month postprogram period, when enrollees fared worse than the comparison group in terms of employment and earnings, the aggregate positive effects of Job Corps emerged and persisted at a relatively stable rate throughout the 4-year follow-up period. This outcome suggests that the main effects of Job Corps do not stem from job placement.
From page 113...
... Program completers benefited most. Partial program completers, those who stayed at least 90 days and completed at least one specific segment of a vocational or educational program but not an entire program, benefited about one-third as much as completers.
From page 114...
... Given that constraint, the comparison group strategy seems to have been well conceived and, HA recent summary of research on the use of self-reported measures of delinquency indicates widely varying estimates of underreporting depending on method of administration (questionnaire or interview) and sample characteristics (sex, race, socioeconomic background, school status, and previous contact with police)
From page 115...
... the residential element of the program is critical; whether the health component is essential; or whether the skills training offered adds to any effects that the basic education elements may have created -- or vice versa. Since women represent about 30 percent of Job Corps enrollees, the desire to obtain reliable estimates by sex led to the selection of a comparison group that was 50 percent female.
From page 116...
... Other studies show that more highly motivated women tend to postpone childbearing and marriage and that the presence of children inhibits program participation. The evaluation design used for the Job Corps does not allow one to determine whether Job Corps participation actually induced delays in childbearing and family formation (see Margaret Simms, in this volume)
From page 117...
... The results of the participant-comparison group contrasts show, on average, small and not statistically significant differences in annual earnings ($290 above the $10,000 annual average) or wage rates.
From page 118...
... At the same time it is clear on the basis of both Job Corps and the less effective New Youth Initiatives in Apprenticeship program that the staff capacity and other resources needed to mount skills training efforts are not acquired quickly or Inexpensively.


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