Sponsor
Portland State University. Graduate School of Education
First Advisor
Hanoch Livneh
Term of Graduation
Summer 1991
Date of Publication
7-16-1991
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Education (MSEd)
Department
Education
Language
English
Subjects
Vocational rehabilitation -- Oregon, People with disabilities -- Employment -- Oregon
DOI
10.15760/etd.6086
Physical Description
1 online resource (3, iv, 91 pages)
Abstract
The worth of rehabilitation programs should be measured in terms of their lasting impact on long-term employment. Vocational rehabilitation programs nationally and internationally appear to be falling short of their goal of long-term gainful employment. Competitive employment options for the injured worker appear to have leveled out, the pool of unemployed disabled workers appears to be rising, litigation and adversarial relationships are beginning to dominate the rehabilitation process, and costs of vocational rehabilitation are escalating. Increasingly, interest has focused on the long-term influence of vocational rehabilitation, particularly on the costly training programs, and on the employment and economic potential of program recipients.
The present study focused on the current socioeconomic and employment status of those individuals who participated in Authorized Training Programs (ATPs) in 1985 and 1986. It was hypothesized that workers who successfully participated in authorized training programs would be able to maintain long-term gainful employment at or near their wage-at-injury in the field in which they had received ATP training.
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Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/24281
Recommended Citation
Han, Grace Alice, "An Examination of the Long-Term Effects of Authorized Training Programs on Injured Workers in the State of Oregon" (1991). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 4202.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.6086
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