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Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Education, Training and Retraining of the Labour Force, a Selected Bibliography
Education, Training and Retraining of the Labour Force; a Selected Bibliography. Education, Formation Et Recyclage de la Main D'oeuvre; Bibliographie Choisie
Author: Education, training and retraining of the labour force, a selected bibliography
Author: Canada. Department of Manpower and Immigration. Training Research and Analysis BranchPublisher:
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Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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International Labour Documentation
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Category : Labor and laboring classes
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Education in Canada
Author: E. Gault FinleyPublisher: Dundurn Group (CA)
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1456
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Industrial and Labor Relations Review
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Category : Industrial relations
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Learning to Work
Author: W. Norton GrubbPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610442571
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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"Grubb's powerful vision of a workforce development system connected by vertical ladders for upward mobility adds an important new dimension to our continued efforts at system reform. The unfortunate reality is that neither our first-chance education system nor our second-chance job training system have succeeded in creating clear pathways out of poverty for many of our citizens. Grubb's message deserves a serious hearing by policy makers and practitioners alike." —Evelyn Ganzglass, National Governors' Association Over the past three decades, job training programs have proliferated in response to mounting problems of unemployment, poverty, and expanding welfare rolls. These programs and the institutions that administer them have grown to a number and complexity that make it increasingly difficult for policymakers to interpret their effectiveness. Learning to Work offers a comprehensive assessment of efforts to move individuals into the workforce, and explains why their success has been limited. Learning to Work offers a complete history of job training in the United States, beginning with the Department of Labor's manpower development programs in the1960s and detailing the expansion of services through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in the 1970s and the Job Training Partnership Act in the 1980s.Other programs have sprung from the welfare system or were designed to meet the needs of various state and corporate development initiatives. The result is a complex mosaic of welfare-to-work, second-chance training, and experimental programs, all with their own goals, methodology, institutional administration, and funding. Learning to Work examines the findings of the most recent and sophisticated job training evaluations and what they reveal for each type of program. Which agendas prove most effective? Do their effects last over time? How well do programs benefit various populations, from welfare recipients to youths to displaced employees in need of retraining? The results are not encouraging. Many programs increase employment and reduce welfare dependence, but by meager increments, and the results are often temporary. On average most programs boosted earnings by only $200 to $500 per year, and even these small effects tended to decay after four or five years.Overall, job training programs moved very few individuals permanently off welfare, and provided no entry into a middle-class occupation or income. Learning to Work provides possible explanations for these poor results, citing the limited scope of individual programs, their lack of linkages to other programs or job-related opportunities, the absence of academic content or solid instructional methods, and their vulnerability to local political interference. Author Norton Grubb traces the root of these problems to the inherent separation of job training programs from the more successful educational system. He proposes consolidating the two domains into a clearly defined hierarchy of programs that combine school- and work-based instruction and employ proven methods of student-centered, project-based teaching. By linking programs tailored to every level of need and replacing short-term job training with long-term education, a system could be created to enable individuals to achieve increasing levels of economic success. The problems that job training programs address are too serious too ignore. Learning to Work tells us what's wrong with job training today, and offers a practical vision for reform.
Training for Employment in Western Europe and the United States
Author: J. R. ShackletonPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Increasing international competition has put improvements in vocational training at the top of many nations' political agendas. This important book explores the economic analysis of training and relates it to the differing systems found in Western Europe and the United States. After an examination of the theoretical basis for increased emphasis on training the authors present a comparative analysis of the different systems employed in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. A number of common issues and problems are discussed, such as the relationship between schooling and training, the role of continuing training, retraining for the unemployed, and the position of women and disadvantaged groups in the labour market. A central theme is the differing policies pursued by governments. While recognizing the common concern with potential market failure in training, the authors also draw attention to the poor record of government-funded training in practice and to the dangers of excessive intervention as a result of pressure group activity. Although primarily aimed at students and teachers of economics, business studies and industrial relations, Training for Employment in Western Europe and the United States will be of interest to practitioners and all those concerned with policy issues arising in the training field.
Education, Training and Labour Market Policy: Selected Bibliography for the EC Symposium "education and Labour Market" on 28, 29 and 30 April 1986
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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CEDEFOP pub. Annotated bibliography of recent literature selected for a symposium on education and the training employment relationship in EC countries - covers employment policy regarding young workers, woman workers, migrant workers, as well as employment creation, transition from school to work, alternating training, training of trainers, continuing vocational training, and related financing, and the impact of technological change on vocational training and employment; includes statistical sources.
Business and Labour Leaders Speak Out on Training and Education
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Category : Business and education
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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