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Evaluation Review, Vol. 22, No. 5, 637-667 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X9802200504

Returns To Education and Training for the Highly Disadvantaged

What Does It Take to Make an Impact?

Carolyn J. Heinrich

The University of Chicago

The author presents an evaluation of a job-training demonstration program that targeted highly disadvantaged individuals residing in a high unemployment community for delivery of custom ized job-training and intensive case-management and supportive services. She found that geographical targeting aided the effort to recruit and cost-effectively serve the highly disadvan taged. Despite their disadvantages, demonstration program participants achieved significantly higher wages and eamings at termination than did comparison group members, and the program produced a statistically significant earnings impact for participants over a 2-year period. Participants who received on-the-job training experienced the largest earnings gains, although on average, the program's effects diminished over time. The author recommends extending the provision of intensive case-management and supportive services into the postplacement period to increase employment retention.


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