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How Difficult is it to Contact Workforce Investment Act Job Seekers?

by:  Douglas W. Leonard, Research Analyst

The State of Wyoming’s Interstate Wage Records database was used to answer the above question. ¹ We can infer the difficulty of contacting job seekers by using job seeker exits from the first two quarters of Program Year (PY) 2001 matched to Wage Records. The Table shows that the first quarter after program exit, 44.3 percent of eligible respondents were not found in Interstate Wage Records. This means that more than two-fifths of the job seeker population who exited during the first two quarters of PY2001 were neither working in Wyoming, nor in any state with whom Wyoming shares Wage Records. Although respondents under the age of 24 (high school and some college students) influence data in the Table, this result is indicative of the difficulty in establishing contact.

¹The Unemployment Insurance Wage Records database consists of all employers submitting UI tax records to the Wyoming Department of Employment (DOE), and contains work behavior information on individuals working for employers that are required to pay unemployment taxes. See Tony Glover, “Enhancing the Quality of Wage Records for Analysis Through Imputation: Part One,” Wyoming Labor Force Trends, April 2001, pp. 9-12.

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