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Proceedings of the Prague Conference, July 2000 Proponents of an active labour market policy are now claiming part of the credit for large falls in structural unemployment rates that have occurred in some OECD countries. Advances in information technology which facilitate matching job-seekers to jobs, modern management methods, and a favourable economic climate in recent years have encouraged innovative approaches and created new opportunities for the Public Employment Service to help the unemployed return to work. This book presents the proceedings of a conference on Labour Market Policies and the Public Employment Service organised jointly by the OECD and the Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Among the themes addressed are: front-line employment service operations, one-stop offices and decentralised management; customer service and employer service; the advanced use of information technology; eligibility conditions for unemployment benefits; job guarantees for the long-term unemployed and other strategies of intervention in the unemployment spell; and improving the accountability of the Public Employment Service through external audits, the use of performance indicators, appropriate financing mechanisms, and contestability in the provision of services. The papers reflect the views of key actors - politicians, senior officials from national labour ministries and employment services, front-line managers, and prominent academic experts - on these important issues. |
This book publishes papers which were originally presented to a conference on “Labour Market Policies and the Public Employment Service: Lessons from Recent Experience and Directions for the Future” held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 3-4 July 2000. The conference was organised by the OECD's Directorate for Education, Employment Labour and Social Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic.
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