Table 22

Benefits and Costs of JTPA Per Enrollee, by Target Group

               

  Enrollees All others Society

Adult women
Earnings gain (minus OJT subsidy) $1,703 $-- $1,707
Training cost 56 -1,227 -1,171
Welfare benefit reduction -235 235 --
OJT wage subsidy 154 -154 --
  Net benefits 1,678 -1,146 532

Adult men
Earnings gain (minus OJT subsidy) $1,401 $-- $1,401
Training cost 100 -931 -831
Welfare benefit reduction 334 -334 --
OJT wage subsidy 244 -244 --
  Net benefits 2,079 -1,509 570

Female youths
Earnings gain (minus OJT subsidy) $146 $-- $146
Training cost 76 -1,392 -1,316
Welfare benefit reduction -379 379 --
OJT wage subsidy 74 -74 --
  Net benefits -83 -1,087 -1,170

Male youth
non-arrestees
Earnings gain (minus OJT subsidy) $-949 $-- $-949
Training cost 110 -2,065 -1,955
Welfare benefit reduction 119 -119 --
OJT wage subsidy 100 -100 --
  Net benefits -620 -2,284 -2,904

Source: Bloom et al. (1994), Exhibit 16.