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Workplace and Worker Education
The LINCS Special Collection on Workforce Education, Research Section
http://worklink.coe.utk.edu/research.htm
Below is a verbatim description from this web site of workforce education studies which will be found linked there.
Featured Resources in Workforce Education Research
The Core Knowledge Group of experts in Workforce Education has selected the following resources as representative of the most rigorous and/or the best professional wisdom currently available to the field of Workforce Education.
The Role of Education and Training in Welfare Reform
This research summary discusses the question of whether welfare-to-work programs should emphasize education and training versus immediate job placement. The research involved almost 100,000 randomly assigned single parents in 20 programs representing a variety of specific approaches and conditions. The participants were followed for five years. The study finds that the most successful programs used a mixed strategy—where some people are urged to get a job quickly and others are offered work-focused, short-term education or training, but also points up the continued need to identify pre- and post-employment strategies that are more successful in getting people higher-wage jobs. The implication for welfare reform is that participation standards should retain their focus on work but avoid restrictions that discourage a mixed strategy. This research should be most helpful to state policymakers in deciding how to maximize welfare-to-work funds.
Success by Design: What works in Workforce Development
This study reports the benefits of joint labor/management workplace education programs in the United States and shows the practices that make these collaborative training programs successful. Nine training cohorts in health care, information technology/telecommunications, and hospitality sectors were included in the study. The report should be useful to organizations implementing or improving their own joint training programs. The report contains a “blueprint for action, based on 12 key program design elements...along with options for developing and delivering similar initiatives.”
Determinants of Literacy and Numeracy, and the Effect of Literacy and Numeracy on Labour Market Outcomes
In this quantitative empirical study utilizing the Canadian Literacy Skills Used in Daily Activities (LSUDA) survey database of 9,445 respondents, both literacy and numeracy are found to contribute to labor market status of workers, their weeks worked, and income. Literacy and numeracy are found to be distinct elements of human capital. Differences in results based on gender are noted.
