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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.
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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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