Analysis of Missouri Workforce Development System "Program Leavers"

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Evaluator(s) University of Missouri
Investigator(s) Sharon Ryan (University of Missouri)
 
Domain Income Security/TANF
Status Completed (final report released)
Duration Jan 1997 - Jul 1999
Type Research and/or Program Evaluation
Program/Policy Description The study is designed to examine outcomes of individuals participating in 1 of 4 employment training and placement programs (FUTURES, JTPA, Employment Services, and Vocational Rehabilitation). The analysis is designed to answer the following questions: 1) how many people without a job in the year before contact with the program got a job somewhere within the year following completion? 2) how many of these people who came in contact with the workforce development system are still working somewhere after 3, 6, 9, and 12 months (and 24 months where the data is available for follow-up)? 3) how many of these people who came in contact with the workforce development system had higher earnings? 4) how many of these people who came in contact with the workforce development system moved from below to above the poverty line?
Notes We focus the analysis on program leavers so that we do not count an individual who is still in the process of training as an unsuccessful employment outcome. Due to the nature of the data set, we may have individuals just beginning program participation at the end of PY95. It would be unreasonable to expect them to have completed their training program by the beginning of PY96, and including them in the analysis would then count as an unsuccessful employment outcome since they would not yet have had a chance to receive training (this same logic follows for the analysis of the PY93 leavers); Administrative data includes employment insurance earnings database.
 
Last Updated 11/02/00
Type of Summary Unreviewed
Contact(s) Sharon Ryan (ryan@econ.missouri.edu)
University of Missouri
Department of Economics
118 Professional Building
(T) (573)882-0063
(F) (573)882-2697

Populations Studied

Target Population Former recipients ("leavers")
Sample Size and Unit All individuals who participated in at least one of the four programs from 7/1/95-6/30/96 and did not continue their program participation into the following year; "leavers"
Execution Not reported

Sites Studied

Missouri