Research Report Implementation and Early Training Outcomes of the High Growth Job Training Initiative: Final Report
Lauren Eyster, Demetra Smith Nightingale, Burt S. Barnow, Carolyn T. O'Brien, John Trutko, Daniel Kuehn
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The High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI) was a national grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employment and Training Administration (ETA). Between 2001 and 2007, more than 160 grants were awarded to establish industry-focused job training and related projects designed to meet the industrys workforce challenges. This report is the third and final in a series from the national evaluation of the HGJTI conducted by the Urban Institute, the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and Capital Research Corporation. This report documents the national initiative, describes the structure and implementation of projects by selected grantees, and provides nonexperimental analysis of the early impacts of job training in selected HGJTI-funded programs. The analysis relies on a review of grant applications and quarterly reports; visits to nine selected grantee sites; data collected from grantee training programs; quarterly earnings data from state unemployment insurance wage records; and administrative data from state and local public workforce system agencies.
Research Areas Education Workforce
Tags Workforce development
Policy Centers Income and Benefits Policy Center