Performance management in federal employment and training programs

Performance Management of U.S. Job Training Programs

This chapter reviews the effects of performance management systems in federally sponsored employment and training programs. We focus on programs for the disadvantaged because they have the longest history, but the lessons generalize to other programs. We find in our survey that most of the evidence on the effects of performance systems relates to their failure to motivate behavior in the direct...

Performance Incentives in Government Subcontracting: Evidence from the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)

It is curious that more government program do not use performance based subcontracts for human resource oriented programs. Theoretical explanations for their limited use are that: agents’ risk aversion to idiosyncratic variation in compensation beyond their control constrains the effectiveness of performance incentives; and, moral hazard can restricit the efficacy of performance incentives if t...

Federal Training Programs for ^ Dispersed Employment Occupations

Creating employment or keeping them busy? An evaluation of training programs for older workers in Germany.

The authors analyze the effect of participation in short-term training measures on older German recipients of means-tested unemployment benefits. Their analysis uses administrative data of the German Federal Employment Agency, and they estimate the effects of participating in two types of short-term training--classroom and in-firm training--on different outcomes of the participants. Results sho...

Governance and Performance: the Influence of Program Structure and Management on Job Training Partnership Act (jtpa) Program Outcomes

INTRODUCTION The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), enacted in 1982 as a major initiative of the Reagan Administration, created what became a $5 billion federally-funded employment and training program for disadvantaged workers. 1 The JTPA directs the states to provide services to “those who can benefit from, and are most in need of, such opportunities” and requires that the results “be measu...