Workforce Investment Act

Workforce Investment Act
Author: Joan Mahagan
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2002-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780756724931

In 1998, Congress passed the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), seeking to create a system connecting employ., educ., and train. serv. to better match job seekers to labor market needs. It allows train. and employ. programs to be designed and managed at the local level to meet the unique needs of local businesses and individuals. To determine how states and local areas are assisting dislocated workers (DW) under WIA, this report determines: how WIA has affected the serv. provided to DW at the local level; how funds set aside for rapid response and other statewide activities are used to assist DW under WIA; and whether the DW funding formula dist. funds to state in relation to their DW population. Charts and tables.

Job Training Policy in the United States

Job Training Policy in the United States
Author: Christopher J. O'Leary
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004
Genre: Occupational training
ISBN: 0880993073

Reviews federally funded training programmes, notably its service providers and the way they operate. Considers issues of performance management under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998. Compares public to private training programmes in the US and to the public training in other industrialized nations.

Solving the Reemployment Puzzle

Solving the Reemployment Puzzle
Author: Stephen A. Wandner
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0880993642

This book is about the interrelationships between research, policy, and programs that have dealt with the problems faced by experienced, Unemployed workers over the past 25 years. Much of its focus is on a series of social sci ence experiments that were conducted during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Workforce Investment Act

The Workforce Investment Act
Author: Douglas J. Besharov
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0880993707

This volume examines WIA objectives and the evidence on program performance and impact.

The Collaborative Public Manager

The Collaborative Public Manager
Author: Rosemary O'Leary
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1589012232

Public managers not only have to function as leaders within their agencies, they must also establish and coordinate multi-organizational networks of other public agencies, private contractors, and the public. This book addresses the issues that affect government managers worldwide.