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Title Improving the odds : increasing the effectiveness of publicly funded training / Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King, editors.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2000.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  331.2592 Im7    ---  Available
Description xviii, 363 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Publicly funded training in a changing labor market / Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King -- Economic, demographic, and social context of future employment and training programs / Frank Bennici, Steven Mangum, and Andrew M. Sum -- Welfare employment programs : impacts and cost-effectiveness of employment and training activities / Lisa Plimpton and Demetra Smith Nightingale -- Impact of job training partnership act programs for adult welfare recipients / Jodi Nudelman -- Training success stories for adults and out-of-school youth : a tale of two states / Christopher T. King, with Jerome A. Olson ... [et al.] -- Employment and training programs for out-of-school youth : past effects and lessons for the future / Robert I. Lerman -- Customized training for employers : training people for jobs that exist and employers who want to hire them / Kellie Isbell, John Trutko, and Burt S. Barnow -- Training programs for dislocated workers / Duane E. Leigh -- Methodologies for determining the effectiveness of training programs / Daniel Friedlander, David H. Greenberg, and Philip K. Robins -- Reflections on training policies and programs / Garth L. Mangum -- Strategies for improving the odds / Burt S. Barnow and Christopher T. King.
Subject Occupational training.
Added Author Barnow, Burt S.
King, Christopher T.
ISBN 087766689X (pbk.)
0877666881

 
    
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