An Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Adult Program in Minnesota: Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Ellen Bendewald (), Nicholas Maryns and Raymond Robertson

No 10107, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I-B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non-experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that are consistently larger than most other evaluations. Second, comparing workers job seeking in 2007-2008 with those job seeking in 2009-2010 suggests that the workers job seeking in a growing job market experience more persistent program effects.

Keywords: pseudo‐experimental; job training; WIA‐Adult (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 J38 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2016-07
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