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February 2005, Vol. 128, No.2

Worker training: what we’ve learned from the NLSY79

Harley J. Frazis
Research Economist, Employment Research and Program Development Staff, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
E-mail: frazis.harley@bls.gov

James R. Spletzer
Research Economist, Employment Research and Program Development Staff, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics. 
E-mail: spletzer.jim@bls.gov


The 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth has been a wellspring of knowledge about worker training and a valuable means of empirically testing human-capital theory.

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