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Activating Jobseekers
OECD on
December 11th 2012
This report on the recent Australian experience with activation policies contains valuable lessons for other countries that need to improve the effectiveness of employment services and control benefit expenditure. It provides overview and assessment of labour market policies in Australia including the main institutions, benefit system, training programmes, employment incentives, and disability employment assistance.Australia is unique among OECD countries in that its mainstream employment services are all delivered by over 100 for-profit and non-profit providers competing in a “quasi-market”, with their operations financed by service fees, employment outcome payments, and a special fund for measures that tackle jobseekers’ barriers to employment. In most other OECD countries, these services are delivered by the Public Employment Service. In the mid 2000s, several benefits previously paid without a job-search requirement were closed or reformed, bringing more people into the effective labour force.Aus...
Topics in this document
Unemployment
Economy
Apprenticeship
Economic growth
Fiscal policy
Vocational education
Youth unemployment
Education
Jobseeker's Allowance
Labour economics
Unemployment benefits
Fair Work Act 2009
Welfare
Immigration
Labour law
Social security in Australia
WorkChoices
Employment
Closing the Gap
Monetary policy
Underemployment
Pension
Labor
Australia
Minimum wage
Industrial relations
Economy of Australia
Gross domestic product
Gender pay gap
Work for the Dole
Related SDGs
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