In this Book
- The Workforce Investment Act: Implementation Experiences and Evaluation Findings
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: W.E. Upjohn Institute
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Abbreviations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- 1 - Introduction
- pp. 1-46
- 2 - An Overview of WIA
- pp. 49-78
- 3 - The Use of Market Mechanisms
- pp. 81-112
- 4 - Customized Training
- pp. 113-140
- 7 - The Challenges of Measuring Performance
- pp. 177-208
- 10 - Financial Performance Incentives
- pp. 277-312
- 11 - Ten Years of WIA Research
- pp. 315-346
- 14 - Nonexperimental Impact Evaluations
- pp. 407-430
- 15 - Designing Reliable Impact Evaluations
- pp. 431-446
- 16 - Neither Easy Nor Cheap
- pp. 447-472
- 17 - Improving Impact Evaluation in Europe
- pp. 473-494
- About the Institute
- p. 525
Additional Information
ISBN
9780880994026
Related ISBN(s)
9780880993708
MARC Record
OCLC
744362085
Pages
525
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No