Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy

Authors

Stephen A. Wandner, Urban InstituteFollow

Publication Date

1-1-2010

DOI

10.17848/9781441680389

Abstract

Wandner examines the research and evaluation of U.S. employment and training programs over the past 25 years. He also discusses the impact such research can have and how misuse of research findings can hamper program effectiveness.

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Unemployment Insurance Experiments Begin: The New Jersey and Job Search Assistance Experiments (with Walter Corson)
3. Enacting Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services
4. Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services: Implementation and Operations
5. Reemployment Services Research: Job Referrals, Job Search Assistance, and the Unemployment Insurance Work Test
6. Reemployment Services Policy (with David E. Balducchi)
7. Public Job Training and Training Vouchers
8. The Self-Employment Experiments and the Self-Employment Assistance Program (with Jon Messenger)
9. Work Sharing (with David E. Balducchi)
10. Reemployment Bonus Experiments and Public Policy
11. Summary and Conclusions

ISBN

9780880993654 (cloth) ; 9780880993647 (pbk.) ; 9781441680389 (ebook)

Subject Areas

LABOR MARKET ISSUES; Job security and unemployment dynamics; UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Unemployment insurance; Worker profiling; WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT; Labor exchange; Public training programs; WIA, JTPA, and CETA