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Evaluating Public Employment Programs With Field Experiments: A Survey Of American Evidence, Christopher J. O'Leary
Evaluating Public Employment Programs With Field Experiments: A Survey Of American Evidence, Christopher J. O'Leary
Christopher J. O'Leary
Research in the 1970s based on observational data provided evidence consistent with predictions from economic theory that paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily jobless workers prolongs unemployment. However, some scholars also reported estimates that the additional time spent in subsidized job search was productive. That is, UI receipt tended to raise reemployment wages after work search among the unemployed. A series of field experiments in the 1980s investigated positive incentives to overcome the work disincentive effects of UI. These were followed by experiments in the 1990s that evaluated the effects of restrictions on UI eligibility through stronger work search …
Profiling Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
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
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
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
Personal Reemployment Accounts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts
Christopher J. O'Leary
No abstract provided.
Considerations For States Planning Personal Reemployment Accounts, Christopher J. O'Leary
Considerations For States Planning Personal Reemployment Accounts, Christopher J. O'Leary
Christopher J. O'Leary
No abstract provided.
Profiling For Reemployment Bonus Offers, Christopher J. O'Leary
Profiling For Reemployment Bonus Offers, Christopher J. O'Leary
Christopher J. O'Leary
No abstract provided.
Personal Reemployment Accounts: Simulations For Planning Implementation, Christopher J. O'Leary, Randall W. Eberts
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
Tools To Transform The Workforce Development System, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary
Christopher J. O'Leary
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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, …
"Targeting Employment Services" Conference, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner
"Targeting Employment Services" Conference, Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner
Christopher J. O'Leary
No abstract provided.