Solving the reemployment puzzle : from research to policy /
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| Author / Creator: | Wandner, Stephen A. |
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| Imprint: | Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, c2010. |
| Description: | xx, 507 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8288186 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : Background ; Overview of the experiments ; The unemployment insurance program ; Dislocated workers and the need for reemployment services ; Treatments tested and methods of evaluation ; Targeting ; Budget neutrality ; Conclusions
- 2. The unemployment insurance experiments begin: the New Jersey and job search assistance experiments / with Walter Corson : Searching for cost-effective solutions: the decision to begin the New Jersey experiment ; The New Jersey experiment ; Job search assistance demonstrations in the District of Columbia and Florida ; Profiling the New Jersey experiment results ; Lessons learned from the job search assistance experiments
- 3. Enacting worker profiling and reemployment services : From research to policy to legislation ; The New Jersey experiment ; Finding what works ; Reducing the deficit versus investing in people ; March 1993 worker profiling and reemployment services legislation ; November 1993 legislation ; Funding of worker profiling and reemployment services ; Summary and conclusions
- 4. Worker profiling and reemployment services: implementation and operations : Federal legislation ; Development and implementation of the worker profiling process ; Implementing and operating reemployment services ; The scope of referral to and provision of reemployment services ; Other uses of targeting employment services ; Worker profiling in other countries ; Conclusions and lessons learned
- 5. Reemployment services research: job referrals, job search assistance, and the unemployment insurance work test : Introduction ; Research about reemployment services ; Three evaluations of the U.S. employment service: impacts of UI claimant referrals to job interviews ; Reemployment services research syntheses for the United States and around the world ; Lessons learned from job search assistance research
- 6. Reemployment services policy / with David E. Balducchi : Overview ; One-stop career centers ; Worker profiling and reemployment services ; Employment services during the Bush administration ; Abandoning program oversight ; The states continue to provide reemployment services ; Lessons learned
- 7. Public job training and training vouchers : Cost-effectiveness of U.S. training programs: an overview of evaluation results ; Net impact evaluations of JTPA and WIA programs ; Training vouchers and individual training accounts ; Research and evaluation studies initiated in 2007 ; Training programs and training public policy ; Relationship of WIA reauthorization proposals to research findings ; Conclusions
- 8. The self-employment experiments and the self-employment assistance program / with Jon Messenger : The self-employment assistance experiments ; Self-employment assistance legislation ; Implementation and operation of the self-employment assistance program ; Project GATE experiment ; Conclusions and lessons learned
- 9. Work sharing / with David E. Balducchi : Introduction ; Work sharing in other countries ; Development of short-time compensation programs in the United States ; Operation of U.S. work sharing programs ; Work sharing impacts and cost-effectiveness ; Lessons learned
- 10. Reemployment bonus experiments and public policy : Introduction ; History of experiments ; Design of the reemployment bonus experiments ; Demonstration findings and analysis ; Policy implications of reemployment bonuses ; Conclusions
- 11. Summary and conclusions : Research used or misused ; Programs that work ; Programs that do not work or are unproven ; Improving existing programs ; Targeting employment services ; Funding ; The need for more research.
