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By Susan Jekielek, M.A., Stephanie Cochran, B.B.A., and Elizabeth Hair, Ph.D.
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Short-Term employment Long-term employment Short-term earnings Long-term earnings Welfare receipt Quality of employment Participation in career development
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Participation in vocational courses Participation in job skills training or on the job training Type of job        
Self-Sufficiency (click for overall summary)

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Programs work:

- In the last quarter of a 30-month follow-up of those ages 16-17 at assignment, program youth gained $21-26 (1998 dollars) in average weekly earnings

Programs work for subgroups:

- Young men with arrest records

- Young men who dropped out of school because of educational difficulties

- Female school dropouts who were not living with own children

- Those ages 16 through 19 at assignment had significantly higher earnings 4 years later than those ages 20 and 21 at assignment

Programs don't work:

- No significant impacts 30 months after assignment (sample of out-of-school youth aged 16-21)




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