Connecting People with Jobs: The Labour Market, Activation Policies and Disadvantaged Workers in Slovenia (eBook)

Oecd (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
160 Seiten
OECD Publishing (Verlag)
978-92-64-26534-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Giving people better opportunities to participate actively in the labour market improves well-being. It also helps countries to cope with rapid population ageing by mobilising more fully each country’s potential labour resources. However, weak labour market attachment of some groups in society reflects a range of barriers to working or moving up the jobs ladder. This report on Slovenia is the second country study published in a series of reports looking into how activation policies can encourage greater labour market participation of all groups in society with a special focus on the most disadvantaged. Labour market and activation policies are well developed in Slovenia. However, the global financial crisis hit Slovenia hard and revealed some structural weaknesses in the system, which have contributed to a high level of long-term unemployment and low employment rates for some groups. This report on Slovenia therefore focuses on activation policies to improve labour market outcomes for four groups: long-term unemployed people; low-skilled workers; older workers; and workers who were made or are at risk of becoming displaced. There is room to improve policies through promoting longer working lives and through enabling the Employment Service and related institutions to help more harder-to-place jobseekers back into employment.

Inhalt

Foreword 5
Table of contents 7
Acronyms and abbreviations 11
Executive summary 13
Assessment and recommendations 15
Slovenia’s labour market was performing well before the crisis but has since fallen behind the OECD average 15
Specific groups are at risk of long-term labour market disadvantage 16
Unemployment insurance protects incomes of job losers and is quite generous in certain circumstances 17
Social assistance and partial disability benefit receipt is high and becoming more frequent 18
Making work pay for benefit recipients is a challenge 18
Low employment rates of older people reflect work disincentives embedded in welfare benefits 18
Labour market institutions do little to address job displacement early 19
The Employment Service of Slovenia is a good job broker and online services are well developed 20
The capacity of the Employment Service to support harder-to-place jobseekers is limited 20
The connection of the Employment Service with the Centres for Social Work is weak and ineffective 21
Labour market duality remains a significant problem in Slovenia 22
Pay systems, allowances and minimum wages can hinder the hiring of disadvantaged workers 22
From parking to actively helping high-risk jobseekers 23
Chapter 1. Key labour market outcomes in Slovenia: Tackling some long-standing issues 27
Overall labour market trends 28
Labour market participation of special groups 34
Key findings 40
Notes 41
References 42
Database references 42
Chapter 2. Opportunities: The Slovenian labour marketand policy environment 43
A brief history of Slovenian labour market policy 44
Causes of the depth of the recession 50
The minimum wage increase 53
Non-standard work 55
Tax and social insurance contribution rates 62
Seniority allowances 62
Travel and meal allowances 63
Support for education and training 68
Key findings and recommendations 70
References 71
Chapter 3. Assuring work motivation and work incentives in the Slovenian benefit system 77
Key features of the Slovene tax and social benefits system 78
Unemployment benefit coverage and adequacy 83
Social assistance and incentives to participate in the labour market 92
Disability benefits increasingly used to lower effective retirement age 98
Pension reform will increase employment of older workers 102
Key findings and recommendations 105
Notes 108
References 109
Database references 110
Chapter 4. Investing in the employability of jobseekers in Slovenia 111
The strong job-brokerage function of the ESS 113
Scheduled interventions in the unemployment spell 119
The effectiveness of Active Labour Market Programmes 137
Managing performance to ensure a rapid return to work for all jobseekers 148
Key findings and recommendations 153
Notes 156
References 159
Database references 161

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• ISBN-10: 92-64-26534-1 / 9264265341
• ISBN-13: 978-92-64-26534-9 / 9789264265349