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Profiling Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Profiling Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Cost-Effectiveness Of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses, Christopher J. O'Leary, Paul T. Decker, Stephen A. Wandner Feb 2015

Cost-Effectiveness Of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses, Christopher J. O'Leary, Paul T. Decker, Stephen A. Wandner

Christopher J. O'Leary

Targeting reemployment bonus offers to unemployment insurance (UI) claimants identified as most likely to exhaust benefits is estimated to reduce benefit payments. We show that targeting bonus offers with profiling models similar to those in state Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services systems can improve cost effectiveness. Since estimated average benefit payments do not steadily decline as the eligibility screen is gradually tightened, we find that narrow targeting is not optimal. The best candidate is a low bonus amount with a long qualification period, targeted to the half of profiled claimants most likely to exhaust their UI benefit entitlement.


Effectiveness Of Reemployment Strategies, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Effectiveness Of Reemployment Strategies, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Personal Reemployment Accounts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts Feb 2015

Personal Reemployment Accounts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Profiling For Reemployment Bonus Offers, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Profiling For Reemployment Bonus Offers, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Fdss Training Manual: Instructions For Using The Frontline Decision Support System, Christopher J. O'Leary, Kim Kornokovich Feb 2015

Fdss Training Manual: Instructions For Using The Frontline Decision Support System, Christopher J. O'Leary, Kim Kornokovich

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations For Planning Implementation, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts Feb 2015

Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations For Planning Implementation, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts

Christopher J. O'Leary

The proposed Back to Work Incentive Act of 2003 recommended personal reemployment accounts (PRAs) that would provide each eligible unemployment insurance (UI) claimant with a special account of up to 3,000 [dollars] to finance reemployment activities. Account funds could be used to purchase intensive, supportive, and job training services. Any funds remaining in the PRA could be paid as a cash bonus for reemployment within 13 weeks, or drawn as extended income maintenance for exhaustees of regular UI benefits. Personal reemployment account offers would be targeted to UI beneficiaries most likely to exhaust their UI entitlements using state Worker Profiling …


Tools To Transform The Workforce Development System, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Tools To Transform The Workforce Development System, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


A Frontline Decision Support System For Georgia Career Centers, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

A Frontline Decision Support System For Georgia Career Centers, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 emphasizes the integration and coordination of employment services. Central to achieving this aim is the federal requirement that local areas receiving WIA funding must establish one-stop centers, where providers of various employment services within a local labor market are assembled in one location. A major challenge facing staff in these centers is the expected large volume of customers resulting from relaxed program eligibility rules. Nonetheless, resources for assessment and counseling are limited. To help frontline staff in one-stop centers quickly assess customer needs and properly target services, the U.S. Department of Labor has …


A New Wprs Profiling Model For Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

A New Wprs Profiling Model For Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system was established nationwide following the 1993 enactment of Public Law 103-152. The law requires state employment security agencies to profile new claimants for regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to identify those most likely to exhaust their regular benefits, and refer them to reemployment services to promote a faster transition to new employment. In November 1994, the Michigan Employment Security Commission (MESC) began profiling new UI claimants with technical assistance from the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Since WPRS profiling was introduced in Michigan much has changed, but the same model …


Design Of The Wprs System And Evaluation In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Design Of The Wprs System And Evaluation In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Statistical Targeting To Support Reemployment Services, Christopher J. O'Leary, Scott Gibbons, Cheryl Atkinson, Gary Gonzalez Feb 2015

Statistical Targeting To Support Reemployment Services, Christopher J. O'Leary, Scott Gibbons, Cheryl Atkinson, Gary Gonzalez

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Testimony Before The Subcommittee On Income Security And Family Support Of The House Committee On Ways And Means, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Testimony Before The Subcommittee On Income Security And Family Support Of The House Committee On Ways And Means, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


A Process Analysis Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services (Wprs) System In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

A Process Analysis Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services (Wprs) System In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Comments On: Procedure For Profiling Unemployed Citizens In Russia, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Comments On: Procedure For Profiling Unemployed Citizens In Russia, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Design Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services System And Evaluation In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Design Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services System And Evaluation In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

The Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1993, Public Law 103-152, require each state employment security agency to implement a Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. WPRS systems are intended to identify unemployment insurance beneficiaries who are most likely to exhaust their regular benefits, and refer them quickly to reemployment services to speed the transition to new employment. This brief paper was prepared for a national colloquium on WPRS held June 11-14, 1996 in Atlanta. The paper summarizes work done by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research for the State of Michigan to design and implement a UI profiling model, …


Reemployment Of Claimants For Unemployment Insurance, Christopher J. O'Leary Feb 2015

Reemployment Of Claimants For Unemployment Insurance, Christopher J. O'Leary

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


"Targeting Employment Services" Conference, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner Feb 2015

"Targeting Employment Services" Conference, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Profiling For Public Workforce Investment Programs In The United States, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner, Randall W. Eberts Feb 2015

Profiling For Public Workforce Investment Programs In The United States, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner, Randall W. Eberts

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Elements Of A Service Referral Algorithm For A Frontline Decision Support System For Washington Workfirst, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Wei-Jang Huang Feb 2015

Elements Of A Service Referral Algorithm For A Frontline Decision Support System For Washington Workfirst, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Wei-Jang Huang

Christopher J. O'Leary

No abstract provided.


Profiling Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Jan 2015

Profiling Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Randall W. Eberts

No abstract provided.


The Use Of Profiling To Target Services In State Welfare-To-Work Programs: An Example Of Process And Implementation, Randall W. Eberts Jan 2015

The Use Of Profiling To Target Services In State Welfare-To-Work Programs: An Example Of Process And Implementation, Randall W. Eberts

Randall W. Eberts

The purpose of this paper is to provide preliminary information about the design of a pilot project to test the efficacy of profiling and referring welfare-to-work participants. Welfare reform requires welfare recipients, with few exceptions, to participate in work activities and ultimately become economically self-sufficient. Welfare recipients possess a wide variation in job readiness skills, ranging from those who are ready and able to work to those who face significant barriers to employment. The challenge of the local administrator of welfare-to-work programs is to target services to those who need them the most. Yet, most programs provide the same services …


Personal Reemployment Accounts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts Jan 2015

Personal Reemployment Accounts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts

Randall W. Eberts

No abstract provided.


Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations For Planning Implementation, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts Jan 2015

Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations For Planning Implementation, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts

Randall W. Eberts

The proposed Back to Work Incentive Act of 2003 recommended personal reemployment accounts (PRAs) that would provide each eligible unemployment insurance (UI) claimant with a special account of up to 3,000 [dollars] to finance reemployment activities. Account funds could be used to purchase intensive, supportive, and job training services. Any funds remaining in the PRA could be paid as a cash bonus for reemployment within 13 weeks, or drawn as extended income maintenance for exhaustees of regular UI benefits. Personal reemployment account offers would be targeted to UI beneficiaries most likely to exhaust their UI entitlements using state Worker Profiling …


Tools To Transform The Workforce Development System, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Jan 2015

Tools To Transform The Workforce Development System, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Randall W. Eberts

No abstract provided.


Data Analysis Of The Implementation Of The Recovery Act: Workforce Development And Unemployment Insurance Provisions, Randall W. Eberts, Stephen A. Wandner Jan 2015

Data Analysis Of The Implementation Of The Recovery Act: Workforce Development And Unemployment Insurance Provisions, Randall W. Eberts, Stephen A. Wandner

Randall W. Eberts

No abstract provided.


A Frontline Decision Support System For Georgia Career Centers, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Jan 2015

A Frontline Decision Support System For Georgia Career Centers, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Randall W. Eberts

The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 emphasizes the integration and coordination of employment services. Central to achieving this aim is the federal requirement that local areas receiving WIA funding must establish one-stop centers, where providers of various employment services within a local labor market are assembled in one location. A major challenge facing staff in these centers is the expected large volume of customers resulting from relaxed program eligibility rules. Nonetheless, resources for assessment and counseling are limited. To help frontline staff in one-stop centers quickly assess customer needs and properly target services, the U.S. Department of Labor has …


Design, Implementation, And Evaluation Of The Work First Profiling Pilot Project, Randall W. Eberts Jan 2015

Design, Implementation, And Evaluation Of The Work First Profiling Pilot Project, Randall W. Eberts

Randall W. Eberts

This report describes a new assessment and referral system that was designed to assist local welfare-to-work program staff in targeting employment services more effectively in order to help welfare recipients find jobs. The motivation for the development of this system was the potential effects of targeting services to meet the specific needs of customers. The system is based on statistical methods and uses administrative data typically collected by welfare-to-work agencies. The Kalamazoo-St. Joseph Workforce Development Board piloted the new system by integrating it within the existing Work First program that it administers for the local workforce development area. The pilot …


Targeting Welfare-To-Work Services Using Statistical Tools, Randall W. Eberts Jan 2015

Targeting Welfare-To-Work Services Using Statistical Tools, Randall W. Eberts

Randall W. Eberts

No abstract provided.


A New Wprs Profiling Model For Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary Jan 2015

A New Wprs Profiling Model For Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary

Randall W. Eberts

The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system was established nationwide following the 1993 enactment of Public Law 103-152. The law requires state employment security agencies to profile new claimants for regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to identify those most likely to exhaust their regular benefits, and refer them to reemployment services to promote a faster transition to new employment. In November 1994, the Michigan Employment Security Commission (MESC) began profiling new UI claimants with technical assistance from the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Since WPRS profiling was introduced in Michigan much has changed, but the same model …