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Research/Evaluation Report
The Effect of Continuing Education Participation on Agriculture Worker Outcomes
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Focuses on ways in which educational programs targeting migrant and seasonal workers affect outcomes by quantifying the extent to which farmworker participants continuing adult education programs, such as types of programs facilitated by NFJP, result in measurable economic improvements.
The study used information from the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS), a representative survey of employed farmworkers in the United States. The study found that participation in adult education programs increased wages and reduced the likelihood of poverty. (Abstractor: Website Staff)
Major Findings and Recommendations
• “Results suggest that education participation is associated with higher wages all else equal, though variation of returns across individual programs is large” (p.2).
• “Program participation is found to be positively related to annual weeks worked in agricultural and nonagricultural occupations and negatively related to weeks spent outside of the U.S. and to poverty” (p.2). (Abstractor: Author)
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- Resource Publication Date: 2009
- Author(s): Alves Pena, Anita
- Organizational Author(s): U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration; Colorado State University
- Funding Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- Resource Availability: Publicly available
- Posted by: Melissa Mack
- Posted in: Workforce System Strategies