Understanding employment barriers to inform policy - Faces of joblessness - OECD
The European Commission, the OECD and the World Bank have launched an innovative new project (see 2-page project flyer) to shed light on the barriers that individuals face in securing good-quality jobs. The main objective is to assist policymakers in designing, tailoring and targeting activation and employment- support policies. This will help, for instance, avoid targeting costly training programmes on individuals whose main employment barriers are care responsibilities or financial disincentives, which training does not solve.