This study examined the multi-level decision making process of the Vocational Rehabilitation Program. The results of these decisions became the basis of a linear probability model to determine expenditures and earnings of clients who completed the vocational rehabilitation program. A further objective was to incorporate into the model a detailed analysis of a specific disability and type of service received. Visual impairment was chosen as the disability and training as the service. Data for the model were provided by the Division of Blind Services, State of Florida for the 1981 fiscal year. / The model consisted of sex equations, two estimated expenditures and four estimated earnings. The explanatory variables chosen were based on three general categories, demographic characteristics, degree of visual acuity and type of post-secondary training. Ordinary least squares regression procedures were utilized to test the model. The results indicated that the explanatory power of the model was stronger for expenditures than for earnings. In comparing the three general categories it was observed that visual acuity and types of training were significant for estimating expenditures, but not for earnings. The demographic characteristics had the reverse situation in which earnings were significant but not expenditures. / Having developed the model it was then possible to estimate social and private returns for several subgroups at various discount rates. The results indicated favorable returns for informal training but not for formal, and favorable returns to the partially and legally blind but not the totally blind. The unfavorable returns were attributed to higher expenditures. The results indicated only monetary returns while the decision of the Division of Blind Services to invest in training may be based on other criteria. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-12, Section: A, page: 3764. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75255 |
| Contributors | SUTLIFFE, JAMES STEWART., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 182 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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