Research about employment
and training
Our research about employment and training focuses on forms of employment assistance that will enable people who face multiple obstacles to gain lasting paid work. This includes:
- evaluating existing services and programs
- identifying the key features of effective integrated support and skills development for job seekers
- building support for businesses operating for a social purpose
- making the case for policies to moderate the impact of the global financial crisis on unemployment.
See more details about the work of our Research and Policy Centre in the working years.
Research documents include:
Dina Bowman and Helen Kimberley 2011, Sidelined! Workforce participation and non-participation among baby boomers in Australia (PDF file, 361 KB) Summary (PDF file, 131 KB)
Line of sight: better tailored services for highly diadvantaged job seekers, submission re future employment services from 2012 January 2011 (PDF file, 250 KB)
Lauren SIegmann 2010, Work and learning in Fitzroy, Richmond and Collingwood: survey of public housing residents (PDF file, 372 KB)
Dina Bowman and Nicole Souery 2010, Training for work: insights from students and trainees at the Brotherhood of St Laurence (PDF file, 515 KB)
Dina Bowman and Jyden Lawlor 2010, Evidence and experience: report on the Individual Placement and Support project for disadvantaged job seekers with mental health issues (PDF file, 704 KB)
Eve Bodsworth 2010, Making work pay and making income support work, (PDF file, 604 KB)