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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Fredrik Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, Julia I. Lane, David Rosenblum and Jeffrey Smith
Published online before print July 11, 2022, 0816-8185R1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0816-8185R1
Fredrik Andersson
Fredrick Andersson: Bank of America
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Harry J. Holzer
Harry J. Holzer: Georgetown University and American Institutes for Research
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Julia I. Lane
Julia I. Lane: New York University and Coleridge Initiative
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David Rosenblum
David Rosenblum: U.S. Department of Labor
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Jeffrey Smith
Jeffrey Smith (contact author): University of Wisconsin, NBER, IZA, CESifo, and HCEO, .
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ABSTRACT

We study the effect of US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) training in two states using matched employer-employee data. This allows us to estimate the impact of training on firm characteristics and to assess the value of firm characteristics measured prior to training as conditioning variables. We find moderate positive impacts of training on employment and earnings for adults, but not for dislocated workers. We find limited evidence of positive effects on firm characteristics for adults in one state, but clear evidence of effects on industry of employment for most groups. Firm characteristics add little value as conditioning variables.

JEL codes:
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  • J08
  • J24

This open access article is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) and is freely available online at: http://le.uwpress.org

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Fredrik Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, Julia I. Lane, David Rosenblum, Jeffrey Smith
Journal of Human Resources Jul 2022, 0816-8185R1; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0816-8185R1

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Fredrik Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, Julia I. Lane, David Rosenblum, Jeffrey Smith
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