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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
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
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02072nma a2200301 u 4500
001 EB001866152
003 EBX01000000000000001030232
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 190505 ||| eng
100 1 |a Immervoll, Herwig 
245 0 0 |a Faces of joblessness in Australia  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b An anatomy of employment barriers using household data  |c Herwig, Immervoll, Daniele, Pacifico and Marieke, Vandeweyer 
260 |a Paris  |b OECD Publishing  |c 2019 
300 |a 38 p 
653 |a Employment 
653 |a Social Issues/Migration/Health 
653 |a Australia 
700 1 |a Pacifico, Daniele 
700 1 |a Vandeweyer, Marieke 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b OECD  |a OECD Books and Papers 
490 0 |a OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers 
028 5 0 |a 10.1787/c51b96ef-en 
856 4 0 |a oecd-ilibrary.org  |u https://doi.org/10.1787/c51b96ef-en  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 304 
082 0 |a 610 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a 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