Volume 13, Number 4 (Fall) 1978
Schiller, Bradley R. 1978. "Lessons from WIN: A Manpower Evaluation." Journal of Human Resources 13(4):502-523.
The Work Incentive (WIN) program provides employment, training, and supportive services to welfare recipients. In this paper, the WIN program is evaluated on the basis of: (1) its average net impact on participant earnings and welfare dependency; (2) its relative impact on providing specific services (e.g., OJT, classroom training) to participants with varying work histories; and (3) its average and relative cost effectiveness. It is concluded that WIN has been very effective in serving welfare recipients who have poor work histories, despite the modest average gain observed for the program as a whole; subsidized public employment is singled out as a particularly effective tool for increasing the employment and earnings of welfare recipients.
The author is a member of the Economics Department faculty, American University. This paper is based on an evaluation performed under contract to the Office of Program Evaluation, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. As with all such contracts, there is no implied official responsibility for findings or conclusions. The evaluation itself was undertaken by a consortium of three firms, Pacific Consultants, Ketron, Inc., and Camil Associates; Michael Temple (Ketron) and David Miller (Camil) and their staffs, as well as Doris Hull, Leonard Cupingood, and Orley Ashenfelter, participated in the study and contributed to the reports underlying this paper.
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