Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services Evaluation of State Worker Profiling Models

摘要

The Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system, mandated by Public Law 103-152 of the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1993, is designed to identify and rank or score unemployment insurance (UI) claimants by their potential for exhausting their benefits for referral to appropriate reemployment services. The goals of this report are to 1) describe ways that state workforce agencies (SWAs) have implemented the worker profiling and reemployment services system (WPRS), 2) describe the methodology used to evaluate SWA worker profiling model accuracy, 3) determine the effectiveness of SWA models in profiling unemployment insurance (UI) claimants most likely to exhaust their benefits, and 4) prepare a summary of best practices (models) for SWAs to use in improving their WPRS systems. With Department of Labor administrative support, we collected survey data for 53 SWAs (50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) regarding their WPRS operations. The diversity of their operations is described in tabular form in Appendix B. Individual reports for each SWA and territory are in Appendix C.