The Workforce Investment Act
Subtitle: implementation experiences and evaluation findings
By: Douglas J. Besharov, Phoebe H. Cottingham, editors
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780880993708; 9780880993715
Subjects: United States; Occupational training; Training of; Government policy; Vocational guidance; Employees; Law and legislation; Evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Understanding WIA : An overview of WIA / Dianne Blank, Laura Heald, and Cynthia Fagnoni; title: pt. 2. Program implementation : The use of market mechanisms / Christopher T. King and Burt S. Barnow ; Customized training / David A. Long ; One-stop management and the private sector / David Heaney ; Eligible training provider lists and consumer report cards / Carl E. Van Horn and Aaron Fichtner; title: pt. 3. Performance management : The challenges of measuring performance / William S. Borden ; Lessons from the WIA performance measures / Burt S. Barnow ; Recent advances in performance measurement of federal workforce development programs / Randall W. Eberts, Timothy J. Bartik, and Wei-Jang Huang ; Financial performance incentives / Stephen A. Wandner and Michael Wiseman; title: pt. 4. Impact evaluations : Ten years of WIA research / Paul T. Decker ; Short-term net impact estimates and rates of return / Kevin Hollenbeck ; A nonexperimental evaluation of WIA programs / Carolyn J. Heinrich ... [et al.]; title: pt. 5. Future evaluation choices : Nonexperimental impact evaluations / Haeil Jung and Maureen A. Pirog ; Designing reliable impact evaluations / Larry L. Orr, Stephen H. Bell, and Jacob A. Klerman ; Neither easy nor cheap / Sheena McConnell, Peter Schochet, and Alberto Martini ; Improving impact evaluation in Europe / Jeffrey Smith.