Connecting People with Jobs: Key Issues for Raising Labour Market Participation in
Australia
Giving people better opportunities to participate actively in the labour market improves
well-being. It also helps countries to cope with rapid population ageing by mobilising
more fully each country’s potential labour resources. Weak labour market attachment
of some groups in society reflects a range of barriers to working or moving up the
jobs ladder. This report on Australia is the third country study published in a series
of reports looking into strategies to encourage greater labour market participation
of all groups in society with a special focus on the most disadvantaged. Labour market
and activation policies are well developed in Australia. However, the gap in employment
rates is still considerable for some groups of the population, including women with
young children, disadvantaged youth, people with disability, people with mental health
problems and the indigenous population. This report discusses the size of the gap
and the - often multiple - barriers underlying low labour market participation of
these groups, and it provides a non-exhaustive number of good practice policies and
measures from other OECD countries which could guide Australia's policy development
in the coming years.
Published on March 09, 2017
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