Abstract
This study performs a quantitative evaluation of the first year Concentrated Employment Program. The assessment presented in this paper is designed to satisfy the first evaluation objective by relating the program benefits received by individuals according to their personal characteristics, the different types of services provided, and geographic location of training with the costs assocated with each of these dimensions. Hence, this study deals with both the impact and the underlying social production process to explain the reasons for the wide range of observed results.
Highlights
The purpose of this study was to perform a quantitative evaluation of the first year Concentrated Employment Program (CEPI).^ The CEP rep resents an attempt by the Department of Labor (DOL) to coordinate several manpower development and training services into an integrated delivery system as opposed to the traditional "single service" approach of previous training programs
The CEP Process model deals with four elements of training: a. the CEP delivery system developed in terms of its component parts; b. the characteristics of enrollees on program entry; c. the paths enrollees follow through the CEP process in progressing to successful or unsuccessful program completion; d. the end products of CEP processing, i.e., whether an individual is successfully placed, drops out, or is recorded as holding in some component, and the relation of these "end-state" results to the paths followed by the enrollees
Numerous combinations of enrollee classes, training com ponents, and utilization rates could be created and the results analyzed from available data. While this exercise was performed and the results reported to the Department of Labor, a full-scale process simulation was not attempted due to the limited data available
Summary
The purpose of this study was to perform a quantitative evaluation of the first year Concentrated Employment Program (CEPI).^ The CEP rep resents an attempt by the Department of Labor (DOL) to coordinate several manpower development and training services into an integrated delivery system as opposed to the traditional "single service" approach of previous (and some subsequent) training programs. As stated by the De partment of Labor: The prime end objective of the Concentrated Employment effort (Program) is jobs, permanent, unsubsidized jobs at decentwage rates with opportunity for upward movement. This objective has a number of dimensions that must be fully developed. It must provide sufficient growth prospects and/or stability to produce significant long-term periods of employment
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