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Given the labor market challenges that countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are facing (notably high unemployment, prevalence of skills mismatches, low labor market mobility, and lack of formal employment networks), employment services could be a relevant policy instrument to assist unemployed individuals to find jobs. Despite high and increasing unemployment rates, employers in the region are facing difficulties to find workers whose competences and skills fit their employment needs. The study first surveys international best practices for the delivery of employment services and then reviews the provision of these services in a selected group of countries in the MENA region, with a focus on public provision through existing public employment agencies. Findings indicate public agencies in the region face many challenges for the effective delivery of employment programs, namely poor administrative capacity,system fragmentation, lack of governance and accountability, regulation bottlenecks, and flaws in program design.In order to help unemployed workers to obtain the competences required by available jobs, this study proposes a reform agenda based on the development of strong partnerships between public agencies, public providers, and employers for the design and implementation of flexible employment programs that respond to real employment needs. These partnershipss will need to be developed with strong governance mechanisms that make beneficiaries, private providers, and firms accountable for making sure that investments in employment programs lead to employment insertion. The book is directed to policy makers, practitioners, economists, and anyone interested in international best practices to promote a more effective delivery of employment services.

Employment agencies --- Unemployed youth --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Unemployed --- Youth --- Agencies, Employment --- Employment exchanges --- Employment offices --- Employment services --- Labor exchanges --- Placement bureaus --- Staffing industry --- Service industries --- Employees --- Employment --- Recruiting

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Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement practices in European countries, Australia, and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors explore how looking for work becomes a means by which participants (individuals, placement agents, trade unions, municipalities, administrations, state authorities, and schools) articulated specific interests, perspectives, and agendas. Taking an exploratory approach, the chapters illustrate different approaches to the history of employment and job searching, ranging from organizational and regulatory histories to the analysis of practices and autobiographical accounts. In the process, they uncover the interrelations of search practices and attempts to arrange placement services.

Employment agencies. --- Labor. --- Employment agencies --- Labor --- Bureaux de placement --- Travail --- History --- Histoire --- 1800 - 1999 --- Labour market --- World history --- anno 1800-1999 --- History. --- E-books --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Agencies, Employment --- Employment exchanges --- Employment offices --- Employment services --- Labor exchanges --- Placement bureaus --- Staffing industry --- Service industries --- Employees --- Recruiting

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331.5 --- Employment agencies --- -#SBIB:316.334.2A473 --- Agencies, Employment --- Employment exchanges --- Employment offices --- Employment services --- Labor exchanges --- Placement bureaus --- Staffing industry --- Service industries --- Employees --- Arbeidsmarkt. Werkgelegenheid --(algemeen) --- Arbeidssociologie: de openbare arbeidsbemiddeling --- Recruiting --- 331.5 Arbeidsmarkt. Werkgelegenheid --(algemeen) --- #SBIB:316.334.2A473

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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.

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331.5 --- Employment agencies --- -Agencies, Employment --- Employment exchanges --- Employment offices --- Employment services --- Labor exchanges --- Placement bureaus --- Staffing industry --- Service industries --- Employees --- 331.5 Arbeidsmarkt. Werkgelegenheid --(algemeen) --- Arbeidsmarkt. Werkgelegenheid --(algemeen) --- Recruiting --- Sociology of occupations --- Sociology of social care --- United States --- -Arbeidsmarkt. Werkgelegenheid --(algemeen) --- United States of America --- -Sociology of occupations