Dr. King is director of the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources and a lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. His recent publications include: The Workforce Investment Act in Eight States: Overview of Findings from a Field Network Study (Rockefeller Institute, May 2003, with Burt Barnow); Career and Technical Education in Two States: Participation and Outcomes, Synthesis Report (National Assessment of Vocational Education, with Gary Hoachlander et al., April 2003); Global Restructuring, Training and Social Dialogue (International Labour Organization, in press, with co-editors Torkel Alfthan & Gyorgy Sziracki); Improving the Odds: Increasing the Effectiveness of Publicly Funded Training (Urban Institute Press, 2000, with Burt Barnow, co-editor); "Public Labor Market Policies for the 21st Century" (with Bob McPherson & Don Long) in Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America (M. E. Sharpe, 2000, Ray Marshall, ed.); and “Federalism and Workforce Policy Reform” Publius: The Journal of Federalism (Spring 1999). He is completing revisions on two additional books: Welfare Reform in the Cities for the Upjohn Institute Press, co-authored with University of Missouri professor Peter Mueser; and Measuring Employment and Training Performance, Back to the Future, an edited volume for the U.S. Department of Labor.
Dr.
King is also co-directing an 8-state study of Workforce Investment Act
service delivery with Richard Nathan and Burt Barnow for the U.S. Department
of Labor and examining participation and value added from career and technology
education in Texas for the U.S. Department of Education as part of a 3-state
study for the National Assessment
of Vocational Education with MPR Associates.
He is also a member of NAVE’s Independent Advisory Panel.
Dr.
King was principal editor of the Secretary of Labor's JTPA Advisory Committee
report, Working Capital (1989),
served on the Technical Advisory Panel for the National JTPA Evaluation (1986-1993), directed the Texas JOBS Program Evaluation (1989-1995),
and was the Texas Field Associate for the Rockefeller Institute’s National JOBS Implementation Study (1989-1993).
He has conducted extensive research on performance measurement and management
for education and training programs since the 1970s and is developing
systemic performance measures, including return-on-investment (ROI), with
both the Workforce Leadership of Texas and colleagues at the National
Governors Association, Rutgers University and Northern Illinois University.
Dr. King performed policy research for the U.S. Secretary of Labor (A/SPER, 1976-1980), was a member of the University of Utah economics faculty (1973-1976), and was director of Research, Demonstration and Evaluation for the Job Training Partnership Act program in the Texas Governor's Office (1983-1985). Dr. King has a BA in economics from The University of Texas at Austin and both an MA and Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University.