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Estimating A Performance Standards Adjustment Model For Workforce Programs That Provides Timely Feedback And Uses Data From Only One State, Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts, Kenneth J. Kline
Estimating A Performance Standards Adjustment Model For Workforce Programs That Provides Timely Feedback And Uses Data From Only One State, Timothy J. Bartik, Randall W. Eberts, Kenneth J. Kline
Randall W. Eberts
The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for adjusting performance standards for workforce programs offered by local workforce areas (LWAs). By performance standards adjustment, we mean a model that uses a statistical approach to attempt to better measure the relative performance of different local workforce areas in providing workforce system customers with "value added" in terms of the system's desired outcomes. Our paper's approach has four distinguishing features. First, the performance standards are based on the common measures proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor, which include short- and longer-term employment outcomes. Second, the model is estimated …
Profiling Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
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
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 …
Michigan's Auto Workers: Tracking Their Transition During Significant Industry Restructuring, Randall W. Eberts
Michigan's Auto Workers: Tracking Their Transition During Significant Industry Restructuring, Randall W. Eberts
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
Use Of Administrative Data To Track Employees And Firms: The Case Of Auto Workers And Their Communities, Randall W. Eberts
Use Of Administrative Data To Track Employees And Firms: The Case Of Auto Workers And Their Communities, Randall W. Eberts
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
Net Impact Evaluation Of Michigan's Jet (Jobs, Education, And Training) Program, Randall W. Eberts
Net Impact Evaluation Of Michigan's Jet (Jobs, Education, And Training) Program, Randall W. Eberts
Randall W. Eberts
The purpose of this study is to estimate the net impact of Michigan's JET (Jobs, Education, and Training) program. JET marks a change in the way the State of Michigan provides services to increase the economic opportunities of its low-income residents. In 2004, directors of the Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Department of Labor and Economic Growth (DLEG) created the Workforce Action Network (WAN), a group representing workforce development professionals, educators, advocacy organizations, human services agencies, and state and local government staff. The directors charged WAN with developing a set of comprehensive recommendations to strengthen the state's Work …
Tracking The Transition Of Michigan's Displaced Auto Workers During Significant Restructuring In The Auto Industry, Randall W. Eberts, Kenneth J. Kline
Tracking The Transition Of Michigan's Displaced Auto Workers During Significant Restructuring In The Auto Industry, Randall W. Eberts, Kenneth J. Kline
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
An Evaluation Of Michigan Regional Skills Alliances (Mirsas): Interim Report, Kevin Hollenbeck, Randall W. Eberts
An Evaluation Of Michigan Regional Skills Alliances (Mirsas): Interim Report, Kevin Hollenbeck, Randall W. Eberts
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
An Evaluation Of Michigan Regional Skills Alliances (Mirsas): Final Report, Kevin Hollenbeck, Randall W. Eberts
An Evaluation Of Michigan Regional Skills Alliances (Mirsas): Final Report, Kevin Hollenbeck, Randall W. Eberts
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
Design, Implementation, And Evaluation Of The Work First Profiling Pilot Project, Randall W. Eberts
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 …
Michigan's Displaced Auto Workers: Using Administrative Data To Track Their Transition During Significant Industry Restructuring, Randall W. Eberts
Michigan's Displaced Auto Workers: Using Administrative Data To Track Their Transition During Significant Industry Restructuring, Randall W. Eberts
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
Auto Workers And Their Communities: What We Know, Don't Know, And Would Like To Know, Randall W. Eberts
Auto Workers And Their Communities: What We Know, Don't Know, And Would Like To Know, Randall W. Eberts
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
A New Wprs Profiling Model For Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
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 …
Design Of The Wprs System And Evaluation In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
Design Of The Wprs System And Evaluation In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
Where Have All The Michigan Auto Jobs Gone?, Randall W. Eberts, George A. Erickcek
Where Have All The Michigan Auto Jobs Gone?, Randall W. Eberts, George A. Erickcek
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
A Process Analysis Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services (Wprs) System In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
A Process Analysis Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services (Wprs) System In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
How Local Workforce Investment Boards Can Help Support Job Creation, Randall W. Eberts
How Local Workforce Investment Boards Can Help Support Job Creation, Randall W. Eberts
Randall W. Eberts
No abstract provided.
Design Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services System And Evaluation In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
Design Of The Worker Profiling And Reemployment Services System And Evaluation In Michigan, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
Randall W. Eberts
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, …