Faces of joblessness in Australia An anatomy of employment barriers using household data

Although Australia's labour market escaped the dramatic negative impact of the global financial economic crisis seen in other OECD countries, a substantial share of working-age Australians either did were not working or worked only to a limited extent as the global recovery gathered pace betwee...

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Main Author: Immervoll, Herwig
Other Authors: Pacifico, Daniele, Vandeweyer, Marieke
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2019
Series:OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
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Summary:Although Australia's labour market escaped the dramatic negative impact of the global financial economic crisis seen in other OECD countries, a substantial share of working-age Australians either did were not working or worked only to a limited extent as the global recovery gathered pace between 2013 and 2014. The paper extends a method proposed by Fernandez et al. (2016) to measure and visualise employment barriers of individuals with no or weak labour-market attachment, using household micro-data. The most common employment obstacles in Australia are limited work experience, low skills and poor health. A notable finding is that almost one third of jobless or low-intensity workers face three or more simultaneous barriers, highlighting the limits of policy approaches that focus on subsets of these employment obstacles in isolation. A statistical clustering approach points to seven distinct groups, each characterized by unique profiles of employment barriers that call for different configurations of activation and employment-support policies
Physical Description:38 p