Determinants of Economic Success in Retraining the Unemployed: The West Virginia Experience

Ernst W. Stromsdorfer

Journal of Human Resources, 1968, vol. 3, issue 2, 139-158

Abstract: The economic costs and benefits of government-sponsored retraining of the long-term unemployed in West Virginia from 1959 through 1964 are examined and analyzed in this study of the post-training labor market experience of 879 Trainees, Nontrainees, and other groups. A multivariate analysis was used. When the effects of age, sex, education, and other socioeconomic and labor market variables were held constant, the net effect of retraining on employment and before-tax earnings for the study sample was shown to be positive and statistically significant. Average monetary benefits exceeded average monetary costs during the 18-month post-training period.

Date: 1968
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/145128
A subscription is required to access pdf files. Pay per article is available.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:3:y:1968:i:2:p:139-158

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Human Resources from University of Wisconsin Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().