Researchers: Robert W. Glover and Sue E. Mutchler
Date: November 2000
Publication Type: Chapter in the book Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Lessons from the Experience in Texas
Publisher: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Austin, TX.
Building a Next Generation Workforce Development System
Building a Next Generation Workforce Development System
Researcher(s):Evelyn Ganzglass, Neil Ridley, Martin Simon, Christopher T. King, Betty Jane Narver, and Carl Van Horn
Date: September 2000
Publisher: Ford Foundation
Publication Type: Full Report (PDF). Contact rmcpubs@raymarshallcenter.org for printed copies.
Abstract: The current workforce development system has not kept pace with the changing economy and changing expectations for the role of education and training. In addition, there is a wide and growing gap between public workforce programs and private sector human resource practices. We believe the time is ripe for a fresh examination of the existing workforce development system. It is also time to define a vision for a next generation workforce system.
The Value of a Comprehensive Texas Information and Referral Network: August 2000 Update
The Value of a Comprehensive Texas Information and Referral Network: August 2000 Update
Authors: Daniel P. O’Shea, Leah Kegler, and Christopher T. King
Date: August 2000
Publication Type: Report, 10pp.
Abstract: This report summarizes the results of the revised benefits/costs analysis for the Texas Information and Referral Network. As in our previous report on this network, we found that state appropriations for a comprehensive Texas Health and Human Services Information & Referral Network will create more benefits than cost and will return a net value to society. Despite an increase in total cost for the Network, we estimate that the unadjusted net benefit to society rose by nearly $0.3 million to $14.7 million and that the share of the total costs borne by the state government dropped more than $1.0 million. State cost reductions are the result of increased local contributions to this collaborative public/private effort.
To arrive at these estimates, we reviewed previous and additional assumptions related to our valuation formulas. We decided that the basic conceptual cost/benefits model used to arrive at our original estimates retained validity. We incorporated the new information into our model to produce the revised estimates.
Also Available: Executive Summary (PDF)
The Welfare Caseload, Economic Growth, and Welfare-to-Work Policies: An Analysis of Five Urban Areas
The Welfare Caseload, Economic Growth, and Welfare-to-Work Policies: An Analysis of Five Urban Areas
Authors:Peter R. Mueser, Julie L. Hotchkiss, Christopher T. King, Phillip S. Rokicki, and David W. Stevens
Date Published: April 2000
Publication Type: Report, 53pp.
Abstract: This paper uses quarterly data on AFDC (later TANF) recipients in five major urban areas to examine the relative importance of policy reform and economic conditions in explaining the dynamics of the welfare caseload and the employment experiences of welfare leavers. We find that both increases in exits as well as reductions in entry to welfare played an important role in the caseload declines of the 1990s. However, in contrast to previous research, we find that economic conditions are less important in explaining the decline than policy or related changes.
Consistent with the welfare-to-work ideal underlying reform efforts, we find that welfare reforms were accompanied by substantial increases in the employment of those leaving welfare. However, this appears to be largely the result of an increasingly tight labor market rather than the reforms. We conclude that although an economic recession would not boost TANF caseloads to prior levels, it would seriously jeopardize the goal of increasing self-sufficiency of former welfare recipients through employment.
Welfare-to-Work Transitions in Five Urban Areas: Initial Results from the Pooled Multivariate Analysis
Authors: Jerome A. Olson, Christopher T. King, Julie L. Hotchkiss, Peter R. Mueser, Phillip S. Rokicki, and David W. Stevens
Date: March 2000
Publication Type: Report, 31pp.
Abstract: In 1998, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration, Division of Research and Demonstration awarded funding to an alliance of five state university partners to conduct research on welfare-to-work transitions in five large urban areas: Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Houston, TX; and Kansas City, MO. The objective of this phase of the analysis was to identify and explain similarities and differences in the welfare-to-work transition profiles of adult female welfare recipients in the five urban sites. The data were used to fit reduced-form regression models in which outcomes were dependent on exogenous (or predetermined) variables. This approach to organizing the data was based on the seminal work of Boskin and Nold (1975) that has become one of the standard approaches of event history analysis. This report demonstrated the feasibility of pooling large welfare datasets for cross-urban analyses of welfare and work patterns. A comparison of the descriptive statistics and regression coefficients has shown both commonalities and differences among the states and the urban sites that are intuitively plausible.
Capital Area Education and Careers Partnership School-to-Career Grant: An Assessment of Early Accomplishments, Constraints, and Prospects
Authors: Daniel P. O’Shea and Christopher T. King
Date: March 2000
Publication Type: Report, 23pp.
This report presents results of an evaluation of activities and services delivered under the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 by the Capital Area Education and Careers Partnership. The evaluation results are presented in four sections:
- An assessment of the effectiveness of the Partnership in attaining its stated annual objectives.
- Notable accomplishments of the Partnership in Years One and Two.
- Fundamental and persistent issues that surfaced during discussions in the field.
- Recommendation of specific actions for the Partnership to consider in the last two years of its federal grant.
Also Available: Executive Summary, 2pp.
The Effects of Computers on Construction Foremen
The Effects of Computers on Construction Foremen
Researchers: Carl T. Hass, John D. Borcherding, Robert W. Glover, Richard L. Tucker, Christine Alemany, and Walter R. Fagerlund.
Published Date: March 2000
Publisher: Center for Construction Industry Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.
Public Labor Market Policies for the Twenty-first Century
Urban Welfare-to-Work Transitions in the 1990s: A First Look
Urban Welfare-to-Work Transitions in the 1990s: A First Look
Researchers: Christopher T. King, Julie L. Hotchkiss, Peter R. Mueser, Phillip S. Rokicki and David W. Stevens.
Publication Date: December 1999, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Office of Policy and Research, Division of Research and Demonstration. 41pp.
Availability: Available from the Ray Marshall Center, contactrmcpubs@raymarshallcenter.org.
The State at Work: The "Workforce Investment Act of 1998" and What it Means for Texas
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