Activating Jobseekers

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