 False promise or false premise? Evaluating the job networkWilliam Mitchell () and
Sally Cowling
Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), 2003, vol. 6, issue 2, 207-226 Abstract: This paper contends that the replacement of the Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) with a market-like system for employment services has formed part of a broader set of neo-liberal policy shifts, which have served to replace the goal of full employment with the diminished goal of full employability. While proposed changes to the funding and operation of the Job Network may generate further, and narrowly conceived, efficiency gains, they will not improve aggregate employment outcomes in the absence of a policy commitment to restore full employment. We argue that finessing the roles of the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in the provision of employment services is a second-order issue relative to restoring the role of the public sector as an employer of last resort. Keywords: Mobility; Unemployment; and Vacancies: Public Policy (includes Employment Services) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ozl:journl:v:6:y:2003:i:2:p:207-226 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School Contact information at EDIRC. |
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