Workforce Development PRP
Working bibliography and resource listing
updated 9-6-96
Compiled by:
Dan Valliere 440-1971, lpas266@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Anne Ray 458-9473, aeray@mail.utexas.edu
Jody McCoy 459-6382, lpas251@uts.cc.utexas.edu
To include additional items:
Please email all items for the bibliography to Jody at: lpas251@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Please use the format we have provided in this packet.
Working resource list
Library resources
Guide to Subject Literature
Guide to Reference Books 10th ed
Z 1035.1 S43 1986 Public Affairs Library Reference (11th ed in PCL and UGL)
Statistical sources
American Statistics Index
Index to statistics from the US Federal Government.
Statistical Reference Index
Index to statistics from states, private research agenices and other private sources.
(Microfiche set in PCL periodicals and microforms for non-depository items in ASI and for all of SRI.)
Government sources
CIS Annual (for hearings and bills up to 1995)
Index to the United States Congress
GPO Monthly Catalog
available through UT Library Online at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Indexes/Online.html or the General Library Information Stations
Thomas
Access to a variety of government documents including bills, laws, other government web sites; available at http://www.thomas.loc.gov (see attached bill taken from Thomas web site)
Bibliographic Utilities
OCLC
available through UT Library Online at:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Indexes/Online.html or the General Library Information Stations
RLIN Bibliographic File
available through UT Library Online at:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Indexes/Online.html or the General Library Information Stations
Library Catalog
UTCAT/UTnetCAT
mixed keyword searching
Periodical Indexes
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) available through the General Library Information Stations (source for journal articles and commission reports)
Social Science Abstracts available through UT Library Online at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Indexes/Online.html or the General Library Information Stations (source for journal articles)
Academic Periodical Index available through UT Library Online at: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Indexes/Online.html, though UTCAT or the General Library Information Stations
Suggested research topics
workforce development
welfare reform
vocational education
occupational training
manpower policy
industry and education
social service
public welfare
labor supply
employment
human resources
Potential government contacts / resources
federal executive agencies
federal legislative committees
state executive agencies
state legislative committees
local human resource councils
Contact information (names, addresses, and phone) for agencies and commitees is available in Federal and State Yellow Books located in the Public Affairs reference library (partial listing attached).
Relevant national organizations
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges
American Society for Training and Development
American Vocational Association
Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
Council of State Governments
Economic Policy Council of the United Nations Association
National Bureau of Economic Research
National Center on Education and the Economy
National Commission for Employment Policy
National Conference of State Legislatures
National Governors Association (Center for Policy Research).
Research, consulting, and non-profit organizations
Abt Associates
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Children’s Defense Fund
Ford Foundation
Manpower Development Research Corporation
Rockefeller Foundation
Various periodicals
Employment and training reporter
The Journal of human resources
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. Annual report.
United States. National Commission for Employment Policy. Annual report.
CQ Weekly Report
GAO Monthly
Working bibliography
General workforce development, training, and education
Employment Training: successful projects share common strategy (Letter report, 5-7-96, GAO/HEHS-96-108).
Multiple Training Programs: overlap among programs raises questions about efficiency (Letter Report, 7-11-94, GAO/HEHS-94-193).
Schools and workplaces: an overview of successful and unsuccessful practices (Letter report, 8-31-95, GAO/PEMD-95-28).
Gutteridge, Thomas. Organizational career development: benchmarks for building a world-class workforce. San Francisco, 1993.
Flynn, Patrice Ann O’Dwyer. Private sector job training in the United States: its contents and relationship to education. 1991.
Economic competition, restructuring, and worker dislocation. Washington, D.C., 1995.
Heckman, James. Choosing among alternative nonexperimental methods for estimating the impact of social programs: the case of manpower training. Cambridge, 1989.
Directory of nontraditional training and employment programs serving women. Washington, D.C. U.S. Dept. of Labor, Women’s Bureau, GPO, 1991.
Workforce quality and competitiveness: what can we learn and use from expert opinion and research? Washington, D.C., 1993.
Heckman, James. Assessing Clinton’s program on job training, workfare, and education in the workplace. Cambridge, 1993.
Kemple, James. The National JTPA Study: site characteristics and participation patterns. New York, 1993.
Does training for the disadvantaged work? Evidence from the National JTPA study. Washington, D.C., 1996.
Carneval, Anthony. Training partnerships: linking employers and providers. Alexandria, 1990.
Worker training: competing in the new international economy. Washington, D.C., 1990.
Workforce policies for the 1990s. Washington, D.C., 1989.
Landini, Michael. Understanding federal training and employment programs. Washington, D.C., 1995.
Ham, John. Estimating the effect of training on employment and unemployment durations: evidence from experimental data. Cambridge, 1991.
Evaluating welfare and training programs. Cambridge, 1992.
Building communities, together. Washington, D.C.,1995.
Summary of state reports on coordination between vocational education and JTPA, US. Dept of Labor, 1993.
State strategies to train a competitive workforce: the emerging role of state-funded job training programs. Washington, D.C. 1987.
Hagen, Jan. Implementing JOBS: Initial state choices. Albany, 1992.
State Youth employment initiatives: a resource guide and framework for education. Washington, D.C., 1989.
JTPA, state oversight. Washington, D.C. ,1995
New state initiatives: environment, resources and the economy: background papers. Woodlands Conference on Growth Policy. 1988.
Evaluating manpower training programs: revisions of papers originally presented at the Conference on Evaluating Manpower. Greenwich, Connecticut, 1979.
Mincer, Jacob. Investment in U.S. education and training. Cambridge, MA 1994.
JTPA staffing and staff training: at the state and SDA levels. Washington, D.C. 1991.
The National JTPA study: Title II-A impacts on earnings and employment at 18 months. Bethesda, MD 1992.
Performance Standards for the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program. Washington, D.C. 1992.
State level implementation of the Job Training Partnership Act. Rockville, MD 1984.
Lacy, Gary. State youth employment initiatives: a resource guide and framework for action. Washington, D.C. 1989.
Ainsworth, Robert G. The JTPA education-coordination set-aside: states’ implementation of the program. Washington, D.C. 1991.
The New America: prospects for population and policy in the 21st century. Washington, D.C. 1989.
Winnie, RIchard. Jobs and earnings for state citizens: monitoring the outcomes of state economic development and employment and training. Washington, 1977.
National Planning Association. Committee on New American Realities. Preparing for change: workforce excellence in a turbulent economy: recommendations. Washington, D.C. 1990.
Schweke, William. Putting America back to work: what states and cities can do. Washington, D.C. 1982.
Van Horn, Carl E. Workforce futures: strategic planning in the states. Washington, D.C. 1990.
Kolberg, William. Rebuilding America’s workforce: business strategies to close the competitve gap. Homewood, IL 1992.
State humanities councils are preparing for life without much help from Washington. CQ Governing Magazine, August 1996, vol.9, n.11.
Job Training Partnership Act: Long-Term Earnings and Employment Outcomes. (GAO/HEHS-96-40, Mar. 4, 1996).
Multiple Employment and Training Programs: Major Overhaul is Needed (GAO/HEHS-94-109, Mar. 3, 1994).
Multiple Employment Training Programs: Major Overhaul Needed to Reduce Costs, Streamline the Bureaucracy, and Improve Results (GAO/HEHS-95-53, Jan. 10, 1995).
Multiple Employment Training Programs: Conflicting Requirements Underscore Need for Change (GAO/T-HEHS-94-120, Mar. 10, 1994).
Multiple Employment Training Programs: Most Federal Agencies do Not Know if Their Programs are Working Effectively (GAO/HEHS-94-88, Mar. 2, 1994).
Multiple Employment Training Programs: Overlapping Programs Can Add Unnecessary Administrative Costs (GAO/HEHS-94-80, Jan. 28, 1994).
Multiple Employment Training Programs: Conflicting Requirements Hamper Delivery of Services (GAO/HEHS-94-78, Jan. 28, 1994).
Multiple Employment Programs: National Employment Strategy Needed (GAO/T-HRD-93-27, June 18, 1993).
JOBS and JTPA: Tracking spending, outcomes, and program performande (GAO/HEHS-94-177, July 15, 1994).
Burghardt, John, and Anne Gordon. More jobs and higher pay: how an integrated program compares with traditional programs. New York: Rockefeller Foundation, 1990.
U.S. Dept. of Labor. What’s working (and what’s not), a summary of research on the economic impact of employment and training programs. Washington, D.C.: Jan. 1995.
U.S. Dept. of Labor. Reemployment Services: a Review of their Effectiveness. Washington, D.C.: 1994.
U.S. Dept. of Labor, Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. What Work Requires of Schools. Washington, D.C.: 1991.
U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. What Works for Dislocated Workers. Washington, D.C.: 1991.
U.S. Dept. of Labor, Improving the Quality of Training Under JTPA. Research and Evaluation Series 91-A. Washington, D.C.: 1991.
University of California, Berkeley, National Center for Research in Vocational Education. Exemplary Programs Servicng Special Populations. Vols. I and II. Berkeley: University of California, 1992.
University of California, Berkeley, National Center for Research in Vocational Educatoin. Institutional-Level Factors and Excellence in Vocational Education: A Review of the Literature. Berkeley: University of California, 1991.
Model Indicators of Program Quality for Adult Education Programs, Office of Vocational and Adult Education, U.S. Dept. of Education (Washington, D.C.: July 1992).
Federal legislation and congressional hearings -- job training
Workforce and Career Development Act of 1996 (H.R. 1617) (status: conference report filed in House)
Workforce Development Act of 1995: a report together with additional minority views (to accompany S. 143) United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Washington, D.C., 1995.
Federal job training programs: the need for overhaul: hearings before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. US Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Washington, D.C., 1995.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources. Federal unemployment compensation system and consolidation of job training programs: hearing before the Subcommittee on Ways and Means, House of Reps, 104th Congress, 1st session, May 16, 1995.
Reforming and consolidating federal job training programs: hearing before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Washington, D.C., 1994.
US Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Education and Health. School-to-work transition strategies: hearing before the Subcommitee on Education and Health of the Joint Economic Committee. Washington, D.C., 1990.
Public welfare (reform)
Welfare waivers implementation: states work to change welfare culture, community involvement, and service delivery (Chapter Report, 7-2-96, GAO/HEHS-96-1051.)
Welfare to work: child care assistance limited: welfare reform may expand needs (Letter Report, 9-21-95, GAO/HEHS-95-220).
Welfare to Work: Most AFDC Training Programs Not Emphasizing Job Placement (GAO/HEHS-95-113). Washington, D.C.: May 19, 1995.
Welfare to Work: State Programs Have Tested Some of the Proposed Reforms (GAO/PEMD-95-26, July 14, 1995).
Welfare to Work: Participants’ Characteristics and Services Provided in JOBS (GAO/HEHS-95-93, May 2, 1995).
Welfare to Work: Measuring Outcomes for JOBS Participants (GAO/HEHS-95-86, Apr. 17, 1995).
Welfare to Work: AFDC training program spends billions, but not well focused on employment (GAO/T-HEHS-95-51, Jan. 10, 1995).
National Governors’ Association. Research Findings on the Effectiveness of State Welfare-to-Work Programs. Washington, D.C.: National Governors’ Association, 1994.
Conte, Christopher. Will Workfare Work? CQ Governing Magazine, April 1996.
Council of State Governments. Human services integration State functions in implementation. Lexington, KY 1980.
Peterson, Paul. Welfare magnets: a new case for a national standard (Wisconsin). Washington, D.C. 1990.
Handler, Joel. The poverty of welfare reform. New Haven, 1995.
The work alternative: welfare reform and the realities of the job market. Washington, D.C. 1995.
Bane, Mary Jo. Welfare realities: from rhetoric to reform. Cambridge, MA 1994.
Friedlander, Daniel. Five years after: the long term effects of welfare to work programs. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1995.
Beebout, Harold, and others. The Number and Characteristics of AFCD Recipients who will be affected by policies to time-limit AFDC benefits. Paper presented at the Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management, Chicago, Oct. 29, 1994.
Bloom, Dan, and David Butler. Implementing Time-Limited Welfare: Early Experiences in Three States. New York: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, Nov. 1995.
Pavetti, LaDonna A., and Amy-Ellen Duke. Learning from Ongoing Welfare Reform Demonstration Projects: Lessons from Five State Initiatives. Washington, D.C. : The Urban Institute, Aug. 1995.
Federal legislation and congressional hearings -- welfare
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (H.R. 3734) (status: signed into law)
States perspective on welfare reform: hearing before the Committee on Finance, US Senate, 104th Congress, Washington, D.C., 1996.
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger. Domestic Task Force. State and local perspectives on welfare reform: rhetoric, reality, and opportunities before the Domestic Task Force... 102nd Congress, 2nd sesssion, June 4, 1992.
Welfare and Medicaid Reform Act of 1996: report of the Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, to accompany H.R. 3734, Washington, 1996.
Welfare reform success stories: hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means. Washington, 1996.
Broad policy goals of welfare reform: hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, 104th Congress, Washington, 1995.
Can state and local governments afford to implement health care and welfare reform?: hearing before the Human Resources and Internal Government Relations Subcommittee, Washington, 1994.
Texas workforce and welfare
Opportunities for youth II: Private industry council and workforce development issues in Austin-Travis County. Office of the City Auditor. Austin, 1994.
Final report: a planning guide for the establishment of a local workforce development board and system of one-stop career centers. Austin County Workforce Development Board. Austin,1995.
Allen, Robert Harvye. The linkage of industrial development and employment training in Austin, TX: public and private sector perspecticves. 1981.
Task force on the Challenge of Educating Texans for the workforce 2000: increasing cultural diversity in higher education. Austin, 1991.
Spurgin, Kathryn Brewer. From rhetoric to reform: enacting welfare reform in Texas, 1995.
Garretson, Lucy. Job training and placement programs: five community colleges in Texas. Austin, 1990.
The Persistent Dilemmas of Preparing for Work: Occupational Training Programs in Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1983.
Massachusetts workforce and welfare
The recession and the workforce: prospects for Massachusetts and the nation: hearings before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, US Senate , 102nd Congress, first session, on examing statistics and figures, programs, and legislation, on human beings and their families. U.S. GPO.
Evaluation of the Massachusetts Employment and Training (ET) Choices program. Washington, D.C. ,1991.
Self employment programs: a new reemployment strategy: final impact analysis of the Washington and Massachusetts self employment demonstrations, Washington, D.C., 1995.
Ott, Attiat F. Assessing state-level job training coordination: a survey design and methodology based upon the Massachusetts experience. Washington, D.C. 1993.
Uriarte-Gaston, Mireu. Latinas and the Massachusetts employment training (ET) choices program. Boston, 1992.
Behn, Robert D. Leadership counts: lessons for public managers from the Massachusetts welfare, training, and employment program. Cambridge, MA 1991.
Michigan workforce and welfare
Ohls, James C. Using private employment agencies to place welfare recipients in jobs: final report of the Michigan private employment agency project. Princeton, 1979.
Job creation-- what works? Conference on job creation alternatives. Salt Lake City, 1977.
Wisconsin workforce and welfare issues
Division of Economic Support, Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. Work not Welfare: progress report, January-August 1995. Madison, Wis.: December 1995.