ACTIVATION POLICIES FOR MORE INCLUSIVE LABOUR MARKETS Paul Swaim - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

European Parliament Hearings on ALMPs in the Active Inclusion Strategy 3 December 2015, Brussels ACTIVATION POLICIES FOR MORE INCLUSIVE LABOUR MARKETS Paul Swaim Senior Economist & Editor of the OECD Employment Outlook Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

Active inclusion requires that ALMPs be integrated into an overall activation policy Addressing demand-side barriers and expanding employment opportunities for current and potential jobseekers Opportunities Inclusive and resilient labour markets Intensive case Ensuring that current management, and potential Employability Motivation placement services and jobseekers have the participation in ALMPs motivation to seek to increase work employability 2

MOTIVATION 3

A special effort is needed to motivate persons distant from the labour market Persons far from the Tax and benefit labour market may policies must ensure need intensive help to that “work pays” overcome discouragement “Mutual obligations” But conditionality frameworks apply to must be applied with recipients of care to less job ready unemployment and persons other benefits 4

EMPLOYABILITY 5

Employability requires major investments for persons distant from the labour market These include Intensive (and remedial education expensive) forms of and vocational ALMPs will more often training, as well as be required protected work For disadvantaged Integration youth, intensive programmes for residential migrants often include programmes have language instruction shown good results and skills recognition 6

OPPORTUNITIES 7

Demand-side measures to improve employment opportunities are often needed for persons distant from the labour market Hiring subsidies may The PES needs to work be required for some effectively with local persons requiring employers special on-the-job accommodations It is also important to Keeping overall involve employers in unemployment low is prevention (e.g. when a precondition for mental health issues activating less job arise) ready persons 8

POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS 9

Effective and efficient labour market policies and institutions: The PES needs help to activate persons distant from the labour market The PES can typically Persons further from assist the newly the labour market unemployed on its require a wider mix of own services A key institutional For example, medical, challenge is thus to housing and provide integrated employment services services 10

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