Linkages between TAA, one-stop career center partners, and economic development agencies : an occasional paper prepared as part of the evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program / Kate Dunham.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Dunham, Kate.

Contributor:

Social Policy Research Associates

United States. Employment and Training Administration

Series:

ETA occasional paper ; 2009-16.

ETA occasional paper ; 2009-16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade adjustment assistance--United States.

Trade adjustment assistance.

Displaced workers--Services for--United States.

Displaced workers.

Foreign trade and employment--United States.

Foreign trade and employment.

Occupational training--United States.

Occupational training.

Economic development.

economic development.

Displaced workers--Services for.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (27 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration] ; Oakland, CA : Social Policy Research Associates, [2009]

Summary:

This report is based on site visits conducted from mid-2005 to mid-2006 to 41 One-Stop Career Centers and the state-level offices in the 19 states in which the centers are located. The report, part of a longer-term project to conduct a national net-impact evaluation of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, describes the linkages that the TAA program has established with its One-Stop Career Center partners and economic development agencies. In many states and local One-Stop Career Centers, the TAA program has developed strong and extensive linkages with Employment Services, the Unemployment Insurance program, and the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Dislocated Worker program. These linkages are in evidence at the state level as well as at local One-Stop Career Centers and in state-local efforts such as Rapid Response. Evidence suggests that strong linkages with these partners, particularly with WIA, lead to service delivery that is better coordinated and can improve participants' access to the services and supports they need to obtain suitable re-employment. By contrast, linkages are weaker with other partners of the One-Stop delivery system, including Vocational Rehabilitation and veterans' workforce programs, possibly because only a few TAA participants need or are eligible for the services these partners provide. Linkages with economic development agencies are also fairly weak.

Notes:

"Final report."

"July 2009."

ETA series statement supplied from external sources.

Title and description from title screen (viewed February 25, 2010).

"In conjunction with research team members from: Social Policy Research Associates and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc."

"DOL contract no. AK-13690000430."

"SPR pproject no. 1147."

OCLC:

557529683