Articles to Use for Literature Review

Amodeo, A., Jin, Y., & Kling, J. (2009). Gaining the skills for employment: The literacy of female public assistance recipients. American Institutes for Research.

Bruno, L., Jin, Y., & Norris, D. (2010). Building career ladders for the working poor through literacy training. American Institutes for Research.

Kirsch, I.S., Jungeblut, A., et. al. (1992). Profiling the literacy proficiencies of JTPA and ES/UI populations. U.S. Department of Labor.

National Commission on Adult Literacy. (2008). Reach higher, America: Overcoming crisis in the U.S. workforce. New York: Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy.

National Skills Coalition. (n.d.). Toward ensuring America's workers and industries the skills to compete: Partnerships, pathways, proportionate investment. Washington, DC.

Rouse, C. E. (2007). Consequences for the Labor Market. In C.R. Belfield & H.M. Levin (Eds.), The price we pay: Economic and social consequences of inadequate education (99-124). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

South Carolina Workforce Investment Board. (2010). Hiring, retention and training: Employers' perspectives on trade and soft skills in South Carolina. Columbia, SC: Richard Nagle.

The central South Carolina area labor availability report. (2006). Dallas, TX: The Pathfinders.

U.S. Department of Labor. (1993). Workplace literacy and the nation's unemployed workers [research and evaluation report series 93-F]. Mamoru Ishikawa.

• This looks at literacy skills at a determinant of labor market performance (employability of workers), using the measure of workplace literacy developed by Educational Testing Service (ETS)

U.S. Department of Labor Office of Job Corps. (2006). An examination of the delivery of literacy services at Job Corps centers.