Australia
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:33:00 CET
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Activating Jobseekers: How Australia Does It
This report on the recent Australian experience with activation policies provides an overview and assessment of labour market policies in Australia including the main institutions, benefit system, training programmes, employment incentives, and disability employment assistance.
Mon, 21 May 2012 16:33:00 CEST
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Everyone into the talent pool
This blogpost by Marilyn Achiron sets out a new animated video on the importance of creating a larger and larger pool of people who have fully developed their skills, encouraging those people to supply their skills to the labour market, and then ensuring that those skills are used effectively on the job
Mon, 21 May 2012 15:33:00 CEST
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It all starts with building the right skills
This blogpost by Andreas Shleicher explains the importance for all of us - countries, companies and individuals - to develop the right skills, provide them to the labour market and use them effectively.
Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:30:00 CET
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Enhancing labour utilisation in a socially inclusive society
This chapter from "OECD Economic Surveys: Australia 2010" sets out the importance of, and how to, integrate lone parents, people with disability, and Indigenous Australians into the labour market.
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:30:00 CET
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Local Strategies for Developing Workforce Skills
Local stakeholders realise that it is no longer enough just to invest in formal education systems, and are turning towards a more diverse range of strategies to increase the supply of skills in their locality. This chapter from "Designing Local Skills Strategies" reviews such strategies in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Malaysia, Sweden, the UK and the US.