Unemployment
Report
Future working: the rise of Europe's independent professionals
By the beginning of 2013, five years since the onset of the recession, there had been a loss of around seven million jobs across the European Union. On average, one in ten people were left without work, with countries such as Spain and Greece facing much higher unemployment rates. Yet one part of the labour...
Working paper
Financial penalties under the Remote Jobs and Communities Program
In July 2013, a new Australian Government-funded labour market program was implemented across remote Australia: the Remote Jobs and Communities Program (RJCP). The program (now renamed and restructured as the Community Development Programme - CDP) had a case load of around 36 000 people, of whom about 85% were Indigenous. Most people in the program...
Article
Effective ways to support youth into employment
Use these 10 fundamental principles to design and evaluate programs to most effectively counter the persistent problem of youth unemployment.
Report
Addressing western Sydney's jobs slide
There are many reasons to be concerned about the growing and, now, long-term problem of jobs in Western Sydney. First there is the simple problem of insufficient jobs for its resident workers. Then there is the problem of jobs location. Overlaying both these concerns is the problem of long-term economic change and what this means...
Report
Short-term employment forecasts: 2016-2019
This report presents New Zealand's employment forecasts for 2016 to 2019 (March years). Employment forecasts for 2016 to 2019 (March years) are presented in this report. These employment forecasts will inform the Ministry’s advice relating to immigration priorities, and priority setting for tertiary education and industry training over the next 2-3 years. The Ministry uses...