Download This PaperAn Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult Program in Minnesota: Lessons from the Financial Crisis
39 Pages Posted: 8 Aug 2016
Abstract
Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I‐B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non‐experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that are consistently larger than most other evaluations. Second, comparing workers job seeking in 2007‐2008 with those job seeking in 2009‐2010 suggests that the workers job seeking in a growing job market experience more persistent program effects.
Keywords: pseudo‐experimental, job training, WIA‐Adult
JEL Classification: J28, J38, J68
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Bendewald, Ellen and Maryns, Nicholas and Robertson, Raymond E., An Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult Program in Minnesota: Lessons from the Financial Crisis. IZA Discussion Paper No. 10107, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2819389 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2819389
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