An Overview of the Summative Evaluations of Employment Benefits and Support Measures Under the Labour Market Development Agreements
benefits to workers who have lost their jobs. Part II provides employment benefits and support measures (EBSM) to help current and former EI clients return to work. Although Part I benefits are administered by the federal government, the 1996 Act gave provincial and territorial governments significa...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.488.5075 http://www3.amherst.edu/~wenicholson/Overview Draft v2.pdf |
| Summary: | benefits to workers who have lost their jobs. Part II provides employment benefits and support measures (EBSM) to help current and former EI clients return to work. Although Part I benefits are administered by the federal government, the 1996 Act gave provincial and territorial governments significant roles in operating the Part II programs. Under the Labour Market Development Agreements (LMDA) mandated by the Act such responsibility can be either fully transferred to the provinces and territories, or the programs can be “co-managed ” and operate under shared responsibilities. The 1996 Act also required that programs operated under the LMDAs be subject to formal evaluations over the ensuing decade. Many of these evaluations have now been completed. Typically the evaluations have been undertaken in two stages. The first, “formative ” evaluations looked at how the LMDAs were implemented and examined in detail some of the programs being operated under them. A second round of “summative” evaluations followed. These focused on measuring the impacts that the programs had. To date seven summative evaluations have been completed for Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Nunavut1, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. The purpose of this |
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