Resources

Departmental response to The Evaluation of JSA 2009-2015.

Key Findings of The Evaluation of Job Services Australia 2012-2015.

The Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business publishes annual reports on a range of job seeker compliance data.

The data relates to those job seekers on activity tested income support payments for the relevant financial year and captures key Targeted Compliance Framework statistics including: job seeker/participant zone status, zone transitions, payment suspensions, demerits, capability reviews and applied financial penalties.

​The Transition of the Australian Car Manufacturing Sector Report – Outcomes and Best Practice Report is now available. The report outlines how former car manufacturing workers are taking up new opportunities in the workforce and examines the best practice to support workers into new jobs.

The Future of Work Taskforce identified that moving towards a skills-based approach to labour market analysis could help Australia respond to this changing demand for skills.

Key Findings from the Relocation Assistance to Take Up a Job Evaluation Report

This report outlines key findings from a successful trial aimed at improving the uptake of wage subsidies through the use of behavioural economics.

Australian Government response to the Senate Education and Employment References Committee report: Penalty Rates 

The Department of Employment publishes quarterly reports on a range of job seeker compliance data.

Quarterly compliance data has been available on the department’s website since 2006. The data relates to those job seekers on activity tested income support payments for the relevant quarter, and many of the indicators are broken down by categories such as age, gender, payment type, indigeneity and employment service programme - i.e. jobactive, Disability Employment Services (DES) and the Community Development Programme (CDP).

The data includes a range of statistics on job seeker attendance at appointments with employment services providers, income support payment suspensions, the number and type of non-compliance reported and the number of participation failures and financial penalties applied.

Quarterly report containing information about post Employment Services Outcomes  achieved for Disability Employment Services

An essential component of the Empowering YOUth Initiatives is to provide evidence of which innovative approaches work well to support the objectives of the Youth Employment Strategy. This document is a high level evaluation strategy which describes the framework within which Empowering YOUth Initiatives will be evaluated.

Presentation to Australian high school students

Job Seeker Compliance Public Data March Quarter

Find out what employers say is most useful to them when employing someone with a mental health condition, including what resources are available to assist.

A factsheet on employers' advice for mature age job seekers, based on findings from the Department's Survey of Employers' Recruitment Experiences.

Results fom the Survey of Employer's Recruitment experiences where employers were asked to highlight the employability skills they considered most essential for entry-level jobs.

Presentation of the overview of the Geelong labour market

Fact sheet about the the Work for the Dole 2014-15 Evaluation Report.

This report refers to the Department of Employment, which has been renamed to the Department of Jobs and Small Business as a result of the Administrative Arrangements Order - amendment made 20 December 2017.