abstract: 'Job skills training is a cost-effective strategy for improving

  employment among individuals who have low income and employment

  barriers, but few U.S. government-sponsored employment program

  participants have received such training. To better understand long-term

  gains from job skills training, this study compared employment and

  earnings trajectories between program participants who received job

  skills training and those who received basic services only. Using data

  from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we estimated

  33-year employment and earnings trajectories among U.S. baby-boomer

  cohorts while accounting for baseline group heterogeneity using inverse

  propensity score weighting. We found increases in employment rates over

  the life course, especially among Black women. Job skills training also

  increased earnings by up to 69.6 \% compared to basic services only.

  Despite the long-term gains in employment and earnings, job skills

  training participation is not sufficient to address gender as well as

  racial and ethnic gaps in full-time employment. Findings reinforce the

  importance of incorporating job skills training as an essential service

  element of government-sponsored employment programs to improve long-term

  labor market outcomes among Americans with economic disadvantages.'
affiliation: 'Oh, S (Corresponding Author), 1947 Coll Rd, Columbus, OH 43210 USA.

  Oh, Sehun, Ohio State Univ, Coll Social Work, Columbus, OH 43210 USA.

  DiNitto, Diana M., Univ Texas Austin, Steve Hicks Sch Social Work, Austin, TX 78712
  USA.

  Powers, Daniel A., Univ Texas Austin, Dept Sociol, Austin, TX 78712 USA.'
article-number: '101845'
author: Oh, Sehun and DiNitto, Diana M. and Powers, Daniel A.
author-email: oh.570@osu.edu
author_list:
- family: Oh
  given: Sehun
- family: DiNitto
  given: Diana M.
- family: Powers
  given: Daniel A.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2020.101845
eissn: 1873-7870
files: []
issn: 0149-7189
journal: EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING
keywords: 'Job skills training; Employment; Earnings; Government-sponsored

  employment programs; Baby boomers; Life course perspective'
keywords-plus: PROPENSITY SCORE ESTIMATION; PROGRAMS; TUTORIAL; MODELS; WORK; CETA
language: English
month: OCT
number-of-cited-references: '49'
papis_id: 8036fe69c661882cd6b281189caed404
ref: Oh2020longitudinalevaluati
times-cited: '3'
title: A longitudinal evaluation of government-sponsored job skills training and basic
  employment services among US baby boomers with economic disadvantages
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000564634100010
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '5'
volume: '82'
web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
year: '2020'