ERIC Number: ED470913
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2002
Pages: 416
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-88099-243-3
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Targeting Employment Services (Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 29-May 1, 1999).
Eberts, Randall W., Ed.; O'Leary, Christopher J., Ed.; Wandner, Stephen A., Ed.
This document contains 13 papers on targeting employment services. The following papers are included: "Targeting Employment Services under the Workforce Investment Act" (Stephen A. Wandner); "Predicting the Exhaustion of Unemployment Compensation" (Robert B. Olsen, Marisa Kelso, Paul T. Decker, Daniel H. Klepinger); "Evaluation of WPRS (Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services) Systems" (Katherine P. Dickinson, Paul T. Decker, Suzanne D. Kreutzer); "A Panel Discussion on the WPRS System" (Pete Fleming, Al Jaloviar, Helen Parker, Marc Perrett); "Profiling in Self-Employment Assistance Programs" (Jon C. Messenger, Carolyn Perterson-Vaccaro, Wayne Vroman); "Targeting Reemployment Bonuses" (Christopher J. O'Leary, Paul T. Decker, Stephen A. Wandner); "Measures of Program Performance and the Training Choices of Displaced Workers" (Louis Jacobson, Robert LaLonde, 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, Dexter Chu); "Targeting Reemployment Services in Canada: The Service and Outcome Measurement System (SMOS) Experience" (Terry Colpitts); "Predicting Long-Term Unemployment in Canada" (Ging Wong, Harold Henson, Arun Roy); "A Frontline Decision Support System for One-Stop Centers" (Randall W. Eberts, Christopher J. O'Leary, Kelly J. DeRango); and "A Panel Discussion of the Experience and Future Plans of States" (Rich Hobbie, Jim Finch, Chuck Middlebrooks, Jack Weidenbach). Several papers include substantial bibliographies. Most papers include one or more comments written by various individuals. (MN)
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Decision Making, Delivery Systems, Dislocated Workers, Educational Demand, Employment Services, Evaluation Methods, Federal Legislation, Futures (of Society), Job Placement, Job Skills, Labor Force Development, Labor Turnover, Measurement Techniques, Organizational Objectives, Outreach Programs, Performance Factors, Policy Formation, Prediction, Profiles, Program Evaluation, Public Agencies, Public Policy, Reentry Workers, Self Employment, Skill Development, State Action, Statewide Planning, Statistical Analysis, Systems Approach, Training, Trend Analysis, Underemployment, Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, Welfare Recipients, Welfare Reform
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 300 South Westnedge Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (clothbound: ISBN- 0-88099-244-1, $40; paperback: ISBN-0-88099-243-3, $23). Tel: 616-343-4330; Fax: 616-343-7310; e-mail: publications@we.upjohninst.org; Web site: http://www.upjohninst.org.
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings; Books; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Labor, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Upjohn (W.E.) Inst. for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI.
Identifiers - Location: Canada; United States
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Workforce Investment Act 1998
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A