Estimating a Performance Standards Adjustment Model for Workforce Programs that Provides Timely Feedback and Uses Data from Only One State
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Note: This paper formed the basis for a performance reporting system that was developed for the State of Michigan. The system is referred to as the “Value-Added Performance Improvement System” (VAPIS) and has been implemented for more than a year. The system adjusts the U.S. Department of Labor’s common measures for WIA workforce programs for factors that are beyond the control of local administrators, such as the characteristics of program participants and local labor market conditions. The common measures include three labor market outcomes: entered employment, job retention, and earnings levels. By making these adjustments, the common measures more closely approximate the value added that the workforce programs contribute to the labor market outcomes of participants. VAPIS also provides a short-term forecasting component that assists local workforce administrators in understanding the likelihood of that their current participants will find and retain jobs. Because of the long lag in reporting common measures, local administrators have little systematic knowledge of their performance. VAPIS tries to fill that gap.
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- Timothy J. Bartik, 2001. "Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help?," Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, number tjb2001.
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Keywords
performance standards; workforce programs; local labor markets; vapis; model; michigan;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2009-01-31 (Labour Economics)
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