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Volume 14, Issue 2
1 February 1993
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Research Article| February 01 1993

Evaluating Employment and Training Programmes: Lessons from the USA

Rebecca A. Maynard
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6577
Print ISSN: 0143-7720
© MCB UP Limited
1993
International Journal of Manpower (1993) 14 (2): 94–104.
https://doi.org/10.1108/01437729310024304

Provides a review of the methodologies used to evaluate various US‐implemented employment and training programmes. Considers the role of experimental evaluations and finds them to be the most powerful method for assessing programme effectiveness. Finally, presents recommendations for planning an evaluation strategy.

Keywords: Employment, Evaluation, Training, USA
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