Connecting People with Jobs: The Labour Market, Activation Policies and Disadvantaged
Workers in Slovenia
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. However, 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 Slovenia is the second country study published
in a series of reports looking into how activation policies can 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 Slovenia.
However, the global financial crisis hit Slovenia hard and revealed some structural
weaknesses in the system, which have contributed to a high level of long-term unemployment
and low employment rates for some groups. This report on Slovenia therefore focuses
on activation policies to improve labour market outcomes for four groups: long-term
unemployed people; low-skilled workers; older workers; and workers who were made or
are at risk of becoming displaced. There is room to improve policies through promoting
longer working lives and through enabling the Employment Service and related institutions
to help more harder-to-place jobseekers back into employment.
Published on October 28, 2016
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