Return-Path: <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id WAA18911; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:04:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 22:04:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <38F3D9B0.2F75C8E9@earthlink.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Alec Levenson <aleclevenson@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-workplace@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WORKPLACE:3426] Re: relation between literacy and employability X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) Status: OR Elaine Reardon, Stefanie Schmidt and I completed a study last year for NCSALL on the employment prospects of former welfare recipients. We used NALS literacy levels to predict the availability of jobs and wages for current welfare recipients in the largest counties across the country. The report is available for download in pdf version either at the Milken Institute web site: www.milkeninstitute.org in the policy briefs part of the publications section, or at the NCSALL web site: http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/research/welfare.pdf -- Alec Levenson Milken Institute alevenson@milkeninstitute.org and Center for Effective Organizations, USC alec.levenson@marshall.usc.edu -- Terrence Willett wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a study relating literacy and job skill level to the > employability of CalWORKs, formerly welfare, students upon completion of > a vocational training program at a community college. > I would be interested in references for research that has been done > relating literacy and employment. > Thanks. > > T > -- > Terrence Willett > Research Technician > Office of Institutional Research > Cabrillo College > tewillet@cabrillo.cc.ca.us > (831) 477-5281
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