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Article: The job network and underemployment.(Report)
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- Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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1 Introduction
In 1998 the Government abolished the Commonwealth Employment Services and replaced it with a devolved system of private providers of employment services. This new system, the Job Network, involved a radical change in the way in which employment services were delivered. Already at the outset of the Job Network it was understood that hard to place clients might be under-serviced in a private employment service market. This was also evident from what could be observed about the operation of the system in its early years (Dockery and Stromback, 2001). But that was a long time ago and much has happened in the meantime. The contractual arrangements have ...