Based on a survey of 49 state coordinators responsible for Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services conducted in the summer of 1997, discusses the operation and effectiveness of these nationwide.
Based on a survey of state administrators in the United States who have implemented the Workers Profiling and Reemployment Service System (WPRS) and of claimant-level data from the prototype system, evaluates the impact of the system on identifying unemployment insurance (UI) claimants who are likely to exhaust their UI benefits and will need re-employment services to make the transition to new employment.
Empirical measurement of impacts of active labour market programmes has started to become a central task of economic researchers. New improved econometric methods have been developed that will probably influence future empirical work in various other fields of economics as well. This volume contains a selection of original papers from leading experts, among them James J. Heckman, Noble Prize Winner 2000 in economics, addressing these econometric issues at the theoretical and empirical level. The theoretical part contains papers on tight bounds of average treatment effects, instrumental variables estimators, impact measurement with multiple programme options and statistical profiling. The empirical part provides the reader with econometric evaluations of active labour market programmes in Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Slovak Republic and Sweden.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Annotation This book includes papers, comments, and panel discussions from a conference on the title topic held in Kalamazoo, MI on April 29 - May 1, 1999.