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Targeting Employment Services

Randall W. Eberts, W.E. Upjohn Institute
Christopher J. O'Leary, W.E. Upjohn Institute
Stephen A. Wandner, U.S. Department of Labor, Editors

Introductory chapter | Table of Contents

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Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, 2002
Industrial Relations Section - Princeton University

This book offers a thorough overview of the U.S. experience with targeting reemployment services and self-employment assistance to UI beneficiaries most likely to exhaust benefits. The authors also suggest other programs that might benefit from targeting, examine Canadian efforts at targeting reemployment services, and consider prospects for a new Frontline Decision Support System for one-stop centers. Included are

  • Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act, Stephen A. Wandner

    Part I: Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services

  • Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation, Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, and Daniel H. Klepinger
  • Evaluation of WPRS Systems, Katherine P. Dickinson, Paul T. Decker, and Suzanne D. Kreutzer
  • A Panel Discussion on the WPRS System, Pete Fleming, Al Jaloviar, Helen Parker, and Marc Perrett

    Part II: Applications of Targeting Methods

  • Profiling in Self-Employment Assistance Programs, Jon C. Messenger, Carolyn Peterson-Vaccaro, and Wayne Vroman
  • Targeting Reemployment Bonuses, Christopher J. O’Leary, Paul T. Decker, and Stephen A. Wandner
  • Measures of Program Performance and the Training Choices of Displaced Workers, Louis Jacobson, Robert LaLonde, and Daniel Sullivan
  • Using Statistical Assessment Tools to Target Services to Work First Participants, Randall W. Eberts
  • Targeting Job Retention Services for Welfare Recipients, Anu Rangarajan, Peter Schochet, and Dexter Chu

    Part III: Canadian Approaches for Targeting Employment Services

  • Targeting Reemployment Services in Canada: The SErvice and Outcome Measurement System (SOMS) Experience, Terry Colpitts
  • Predicting Long-Term Unemployment in Canada: Prospects and Policy Implications, Ging Wong, Harold Henson, and Arun Roy

    Part IV: New Directions for Targeting Employment Services

  • A Frontline Decision Support System for One-Stop Centers, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O’Leary, and Kelly J. DeRango
  • A Panel Discussion on the Experience and Future Plans of States, Rich Hobbie, Jim Finch, Chuck Middlebrooks, and Jack Weidenbach
    • Related titles
  • Job Training Policy in the United States, Christopher J. O'Leary, Robert A. Straits, and Stephen A. Wandner, Editors
  • Labor Exchange Policy in the United States, David E. Balducchi, Randall W. Eberts, and Christopher J. O'Leary, Editors
  • Unemployment Insurance in the United States: Analysis of Policy Issues, Christopher J. O'Leary and Stephen A. Wandner, Editors
  • Reemployment Bonuses in the Unemployment Insurance System, Philip K. Robins and Robert G. Spiegelman, Editors
  • On-the-Job Training, John M. Barron, Mark C. Berger, and Dan A. Black
  • Permanent Job Loss and the U.S. System of Financing Unemployment Insurance, Frank Brechling and Louise Laurence
  • The Costs of Worker Dislocation, Louis S. Jacobson, Robert J. LaLonde, and Daniel G. Sulllivan
  • Skill-Biased Technological Change, Donald S. Siegel
    • 434 pp. 2002
    $64 cloth ISBN 0-88099-244-1 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-244-2
    $23 paper ISBN 0-88099-243-3 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-243-5

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