This report examines the performance of public employment services and the effectiveness of activation strategies in … Switzerland. It covers the role of the key actors in labour market policy, the placement function of the Public Employment Service …

The Japanese labour market is characterised by high employment rates for men and older workers, and a low unemployment … workers have grown. Further efforts are needed to promote increases in female and older-worker employment rates so as to …

currently in the sick and disabled, lone-parent, old-age and non-categorical social assistance groups into employment …

Public Employment Service (PES) and generates some additional constraints, but the policy options remain generally similar to …

<OL><LI>Most Western countries have a long tradition of employment service provision by public bodies and non …

This report examines the performance of the Public Employment Service (PES) and the effectiveness of activation … employment services are systematising their early intervention and follow-up strategies for all jobseekers. Greater incentives …

In Ireland the placement function of the Public Employment Service (PES) is primarily within FÁS, the Training and … Employment Authority, which is supervised by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE). But employment … counselling services are also provided by the “Local Employment Service” (which has partly-separate funding and management …

Strategies to 'activate' the unemployed with the help of high-quality employment services have continuously gained … employment services are addressed in three countries which have undertaken considerable reforms in recent years, namely Germany …

programme no longer generates new UI entitlements. However, the public employment service (PES) can refer the unemployed to a …

's provinces have taken over administrative responsibility for the employment benefit and support measures (EBSMs) targeted on UI … system (now called employment insurance, EI). It concludes that within the context of EBSMs, any cost-shifting of this ...<BR …