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Employment Services for Jobseekers Needing Substantial Assistance: How We Got to Where We Are and How to Make Progress

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This article (i) provides a brief history of how the employment services system in Australia has come to fail jobseekers with high barriers to employment; (ii) presents an overview of the elements of a successful programme for those jobseekers; and (iii) makes recommendations on how to make progress on improving the system for delivery of employment services, building from the Hill report'.

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  • Jeff Borland, 2025. "Employment Services for Jobseekers Needing Substantial Assistance: How We Got to Where We Are and How to Make Progress," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 58(4), pages 332-342, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:58:y:2025:i:4:p:332-342
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.70036
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