Back to Work: Australia Improving the Re-employment Prospects of Displaced Workers (eBook)

Oecd (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
140 Seiten
OECD Publishing (Verlag)
978-92-64-25347-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Job displacement (involuntary job loss due to firm closure or downsizing) affects many workers over their lifetime. Displaced workers may face long periods of unemployment and, even when they find new jobs, tend to be paid less and have fewer benefits than in their prior jobs. Helping them get back into good jobs quickly should be a key goal of labour market policy. This report is the fourth in a series of reports looking at how this challenge is being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It shows that many displaced workers get new jobs relatively quickly in Australia, mostly thanks to a flexible and dynamic labour market. A small minority of displaced workers receive special support via the labour adjustment programmes, but some displaced workers who would need specific assistance, in particular in the older worker and/or low-educated groups, do not get sufficient support or only too late. There is room to improve policies by moving away from the current sectoral approach to special assistance programmes for workers collectively dismissed, towards an approach covering all sectors of the economy, with the intensity of intervention tailored to the circumstances and needs of the displaced workers. Expanding the training component for displaced workers and making use of skills assessment and training to better target the training and enhance its effectiveness would also help displaced workers transition to sustainable jobs of a certain quality.

Inhalt

Foreword 5
Table of contents 7
Acronyms and abbreviations 11
Executive summary 13
Assessment and recommendations 15
Chapter 1. 
25 
The Australian labour market context 26
Displaced workers: Incidence and characteristics 32
Labour market outcomes following displacement 37
Wages and job characteristics following displacement 41
Skill use of displaced workers 45
Conclusion 49
Notes 50
References 53
Annex 1.A1 - Supplementary table 
55 
Chapter 2. 
57 
Income support available to displaced workers 58
General re-employment services available to displaced workers 69
Counter-cyclical policies for displaced workers: The Jobs and Training Compact 
87 
Conclusion 92
Notes 96
References 99
Chapter 3. 
103 
Prevention of dismissals 104
Support to displaced workers that is provided through structural 
111 
Conclusion 128
Notes 133
References 136

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• ISBN-10: 92-64-25347-5 / 9264253475
• ISBN-13: 978-92-64-25347-6 / 9789264253476