abstract: 'Although attention to labor market preparation, access, and retention

  for disadvantaged workers has experienced a dramatic turnaround in the

  past 6 years for economic and policy reasons, serious challenges remain.

  Today''s workforce development implies more than employment training in

  the narrow sense: It means substantial employer engagement, deep

  community connections, career advancement, integrative human service

  supports, contextual and industry-driven education and training,

  reformed community colleges, and connective tissue of networks. This

  article discusses six areas of workforce development learning: (a)

  retention and advancement, (b) employer and jobseeker customers, (c)

  regions and neighborhoods, (d) race and labor markets, (e) best

  practices and replication, and (f) labor market reform. In addition to

  inevitable economic downturns, optimism should be tempered by three big

  challenges: the underlying patterns of wage and income inequality, the

  persistence of race and gender inequalities, and our historic failure to

  create effective links between schools and labor markets.'
affiliation: 'Giloth, RP (Corresponding Author), Annie E Casey Fdn, Baltimore, MD
  USA.

  Annie E Casey Fdn, Baltimore, MD USA.'
author: Giloth, RP
author_list:
- family: Giloth
  given: RP
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/089124240001400402
eissn: 1552-3543
files: []
issn: 0891-2424
journal: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
keywords-plus: DISCRIMINATION; JOBS
language: English
month: NOV
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '114'
pages: 340-359
papis_id: dbc158815437a00bbdd4b1cfb0a02416
ref: Giloth2000learningfield
tags:
- review
times-cited: '33'
title: 'Learning from the field: Economic growth and workforce development in the
  1990s'
type: Review
unique-id: WOS:000089745400002
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '13'
volume: '14'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies; Economics; Urban Studies
year: '2000'