Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89892 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7621
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive training. In addition to the usual impacts on earnings and employment, we link our state data to the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data at the U.S. Census Bureau, which allows us to estimate impacts on the characteristics of the firms at which participants find employment. We find moderate positive impacts on employment, earnings and desirable firm characteristics for adults, but not for dislocated workers. Our primary methodological contribution consists of assessing the value of the additional conditioning information provided by the LEHD relative to the data available in state Unemployment Insurance (UI) earnings records. We find that value to be zero.
Subjects: 
job training
active labor market program
program evaluation
Workforce Investment Act
administrative data
JEL: 
I38
J08
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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