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Reducing unemployment – a simple blueprint

Posted by Richard Johnson on May 25, 2020 · Leave a Comment

The UK’s Chancellor is forecasting unemployment will reach double digits (up from under 4% in March 2020), but what are his plans for reversing this social and economic catastrophe? Once we emerge from our shelters, it is entirely possible to help more people find jobs again more quickly (and speed recovery) and it is not … Continue reading →

Category Contract design, Contract management, Outsourcing, poverty, Service design, Skills, unemployment, Welfare to work · Tagged with case management, Department for Work and Pensions, job intermediation, Jobcentre Plus, jobcentres, price competition, procurement, transparency, unemployment, winners curse

The Kabul model

Posted by Richard Johnson on June 20, 2018 · 1 Comment

The Ministry of Labour Social Affairs Martyrs & Disabled (MoLSAMD) in Afghanistan (the equivalent of DWP in the UK or DEEWR in Australia), with technical assistance from the World Bank, are about to begin the contracting of two pilot employment programmes. One aims to open up a formal migration channel for thousands of Afghanistan workers … Continue reading →

Category Afghanistan, Contract design, Outsourcing, poverty, Service design, Skills, Welfare to work, World Bank · Tagged with bottom-up, employers, fragile states, inputs versus outputs versus outcomes, jobs, labour markets, long-term unemployment, markets, migration, outcome-based contracting. payment by results, outcomes, outsourcing, place, poverty, price competition, top-down, unemployment, vocational training, youth unemployment

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