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  • The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences and Evaluation Findings
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  • Douglas J. Besharov and Phoebe H. Cottingham, Editors
  • 2011
  • Published by: W.E. Upjohn Institute
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Douglas J. Besharov and Phoebe H. Cottingham present a group papers that provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date look yet at WIAs program performance and impact. The papers were commissioned for a meeting held with staff of the European Commission for a discussion of WIA lessons and the implications for future workforce programming in the United States as well as Europe. They are organized into five areas: 1) understanding WIA, 2) program implementation, 3) performance management, 4) impact evaluations, and 5) future evaluation choices. In addition, they detail how WIA performance management systems function and present various evaluation techniques for assessing workforce programs.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. List of Abbreviations
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. ix
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  1. 1 - Introduction
  2. pp. 1-46
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  1. Part 1 Understanding WIA
  2. p. 47
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  1. 2 - An Overview of WIA
  2. pp. 49-78
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  1. Part 2 Program Implementation
  2. p. 79
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  1. 3 - The Use of Market Mechanisms
  2. pp. 81-112
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  1. 4 - Customized Training
  2. pp. 113-140
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  1. 5 - One-Stop Management and the Private Sector
  2. pp. 141-152
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  1. 6 - Eligible Training Provider Lists and Consumer Report Cards
  2. pp. 153-174
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  1. Part 3 Performance Management
  2. p. 175
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  1. 7 - The Challenges of Measuring Performance
  2. pp. 177-208
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  1. 8 - Lessons from the WIA Performance Measures
  2. pp. 209-232
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  1. 9 - Recent Advances in Performance Measurement of Federal Workforce Development Programs
  2. pp. 233-276
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  1. 10 - Financial Performance Incentives
  2. pp. 277-312
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  1. Part 4 Impact Evaluations
  2. p. 313
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  1. 11 - Ten Years of WIA Research
  2. pp. 315-346
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  1. 12 - Short-Term Net Impact Estimates and Rates of Return
  2. pp. 347-370
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  1. 13 - A Nonexperimental Evaluation of WIA Programs
  2. pp. 371-404
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  1. Part 5 Future Evaluation Choices
  2. p. 405
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  1. 14 - Nonexperimental Impact Evaluations
  2. pp. 407-430
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  1. 15 - Designing Reliable Impact Evaluations
  2. pp. 431-446
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  1. 16 - Neither Easy Nor Cheap
  2. pp. 447-472
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  1. 17 - Improving Impact Evaluation in Europe
  2. pp. 473-494
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  1. Authors
  2. pp. 495-498
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  1. Index
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  1. About the Institute
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