The One-Stop service delivery system was established under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 (Public Law 105–220, 29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.). One of the core principles of WIA was to provide universal access to services by “giving all Americans [including those with disabilities] access to comprehensive services, information and resources that can help them in achieving their career goals...

* Bureau of Research and Statistics, Div is ion of Coordination Studies. I N SPITE OF W I D E S P R E A D I N T E R E S T in industrial migration and of various efforts to accumulate detailed information on the nature of interstate movements and the characteristics of migrants, knowledge of this problem is still very limited. Current generalizations are necessarily based on numerous sample stud...

We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies, and we give a diagrammatic formulation of the market equilibrium. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for entrepreneurship, self-employment, and wage employment. We then introduce labour market segmentation. In equilibrium voluntary and involuntar...

► We use a theoretical model of self-employment and test its implications empirically. ► Our contribution is to allow for an interaction with educational attainment. ► Employment protection reduces self-employment rather for highly educated workers. ► Inclusion of interaction necessary to assess the effect of employment protection. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o We analyse how educationa...