Youth Employment and Training Programs

Charles Betsey, Robinson G. Hollister, Jr., and Mary R. Papageorgiou, Editors; Committee on Youth Employment Programs, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 1 Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations; 3 2 Youth Employment and Unemployment; 4 3 Implementation of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act; 5 4 Procedures Used in Evaluating the Effectiveness of YEDPA Programs; 6 5 Effectiveness of Occupational Skills Training Programs; 7 6 Effectiveness of Labor Market Preparation Programs; 8 7 Effectiveness of Temporary Jobs Programs; 9 8 Effectiveness of Job Placement Programs; 10 9 Evidence of Programs Effectiveness From National Data Bases; 11 References; 12 Appendix A: Standardized Data Collection for Large-Scale Program Evaluation: An Assessment of the YEDPA-SAS Experience; 13 Appendix B: Report List; 14 Appendix C: Implications of the Youth Employment Experience for Improving Applied Research and Evaluation Policy; 15 Appendix D: Estimates of Effects of Employment and Training Programs Derived from National Longitudinal Surveys and Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey; 16 Commissioned Papers Knowledge Development Under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act, 1977-1981; 17 Social Context of Youth Employment Programs; 18 Youth Joblessness and Race: Evidence from the 1980 Census; 19 Hispanic Youth in the Labor Market: An analysis of High School and Beyond; 20 The Participation of Young Women in Employment and Training Programs; 21 Index