Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20043 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 798
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different effects at different stages in the participation process. Our analysis shows that personal choices substantially affect participation and that awareness of program eligibility is a major source of variation in participation.
Subjects: 
social program participation
job training
performance standards
cream skimming
Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)
JEL: 
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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