Activating Jobseekers

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Foreword Table of contents Acronyms and abbreviations Executive summary Summary and recommendations Chapter 1 The background to active labour market policies in Australia Introduction Demography, immigration and education Labour market trends Labour market situation of specific groups The role of social and labour market policies Patterns of labour market spending Notes Bibliography Chapter 2 The institutional set-up of Australia’s labour market policy and employment services Introduction Key actors in labour market policy Contracting-out under Job Network and Job Services Australia Features of JSA contract management Disability Employment Services Project funding Human resources and workload in employment services Notes Bibliography Chapter 3 Job brokerage and activation strategies in Australia Introduction Scheduled interventions in the unemployment spell in the JSA model Provider fees and the Employment Pathway Fund The Job Seeker Classification Instrument, Job Capacity Assessment and Star Rating system Incentive implications of the JSA funding model Providers’ operational strategies and operating environment42 Placement performance and Star Rating outcomes JSA client groups Key points Notes Bibliography Chapter 4 Unemployment and related benefits in Australia Introduction The main working-age benefits Exemptions and suspensions from active jobseeker status Participation requirements and the compliance regime The history of activation of unemployment and inactive benefits Evaluation findings from the reforms of inactive benefits Income support recipiency rates and employment rates Key points Notes Bibliography Chapter 5 Australian active labour market programmes Introduction International comparison and overview of active labour market programmes Training programmes Work experience programmes Start-up incentives ALMPs for specific target groups Monitoring and evaluation of active labour market programmes Key points Notes Bibliography Annex 5.A1 National programme level data for public expenditure, participant stocks and expenditure per participant-year, 2001/02 to 2010/11