Differentials IDENTIFIERS *Job Training Partnership Act 1982; *Utah

A study examined the feasibility of using a "nonexperimental " technique to evaluate Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs for economically disadvantaged adults. New statistical techniques were applied to data about a sample of Utah JTPA participants and data about Employment Security registrants linked with their individual Unemployment Insurance earnings records programs in order to derive bias-free "quasi-net impact " estimates. The analysis revealed that JTPA ccmpleters who were either placed in unsubsidized jobs or retained by their employer in the case of on-the-job training were significantly (10 percent) more likely to be employed 2 years after their original enrollment. The earnings of program completers placed into unsubsidized employment were also significantly higher (by nearly $1,000 for women and by more than $1,300 for men) than those of nen-JTPA participants. The stud