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2. job search

Main policies to tackle youth unemployment:
Employment services as the main starting
point for delivering the Youth Guarantee
Giovanni Bocchieri, Lombardy Region
October 15th, 2014
Employment policy in Lombardy
Objective: increasing the effectiveness of regional welfare
PRINCIPLES
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Freedom
of choice
Individual’s
centrality
Competition
Focus
on results
People have a personal
budget and are
provided all training
and employment
services that can meet
their own personal
needs
People are able to
choose among public
and private accredited
agencies
Competition among
public and private
agencies that provide
services, to promote
quality
Focus on employment
results and
simplification
TOOLS
1. Accreditation of training and employment agencies that ensures they meet quality standards
2. Dote model: individual budget for a mix of employment and training services
3. Regulation of services (content, duration, expected outputs and results, unit costs)
Accreditation
Accredited agencies for employment and training services work within a network, according to the
nature of specific interventions, overseeing the emerging demand in the different territories.
The network provides high flexibility and ensures supply for the full range of services.
The network in figures
1590
784
accredited
agencies
offices
Provide employment services
190
747
131
594
Provide training services
443
843
!
Within the Youth Guarantee, also schools
and universities can take their students
(who have earned a diploma/degree in
the last 4 months) up to provide them
with employment services
Participation to regional policies
Supply of employment services
Accreditation
The person chooses the accredited agency forhis/her
Dote
People
centrality
The person defines with the agency its own
personalized path involving also other agencies of the
network
Agencies deliver training services and employment
services to realize the personalized path
Youth policy before Youth Guarantee
Before the launch of YG, young people were supported through Dote Unica Lavoro.
Dote Unica Lavoro support persons throughout their active life, according to different individual
conditions and specific needs expressed by each person. For each target, a number of services from a
defined set of baskets of services may be activated.
Example
What I need:
• Competency mapping
• Continuous training
• Conciliatory vouchers
Continuous
training
To find a job
Initial training
Who I am:
• Competency mapping
• Continuous training
• Basic employment services
• Job placement services
• Long-life Learning (specialized, continuous,
permanent)
• Training on the job
• Wage subsidies
• Job placement
services
• Orientation and
accompaniment
• Wage subsidies
• Job placement services
• Creation of a support
network
• Orientation and
accompaniment
• Wage subsidies
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• Competency
mapping
• Internships
• Training
Young person
• Competency mapping
• Continuous training
• Conciliatory vouchers
Employed
Unemployed
Beneficiary of
social safety net
Competency mapping
Internships
Training
Orientation and
accompaniment
Person with
a disability
Agreement with employment agencies
Dote Unica Lavoro is based on an agreement with private and public employment agencies.
Administrative
simplification
Uniform rules applicable
to all kind of “Dote”
Use of standard scales of
unit costs to simplify
reporting and enhance
quality and results
Budget
threshold
Each agency has a
maximum budget
threshold
The budget threshold will
increase or decrease
according to its
performance in terms of
efficiency and
effectiveness
Orientation
to results
Placement services are reimbursed upon
successful job placement of the person
Payment of training services is
conditional to the achievement of
employment results
Internships are encouraged as a first
access to the labour market
The successful placement of the person
in a short time is an incentive for the
agency
Dote Unica Lavoro: progress and results
General progress per aid intensity cluster:
No. of Dotes
Amount
4,827
€ 4,419,665.78
2. Medium aid intensity
11,991
€ 19,397,559.78
3. High aid intensity
21,702
€ 52,545,501.43
3,395
€ 809,885.27
41,915
€ 77,172,612.26
1. Low aid intensity
4. Other aid
Apprenticeship
2,901
7,6%
24%
65,01%
of the takeovers
As of Oct. 2014,
24,762 participants
have started a
work experience.
Contracts > 180 days
Contracts < 180 days
Internships
12,049
Type of
contract
31,6%
Permanent job
17%
Temporary job
59%
Employment Agencies
9,812
25,8%
53%
Type of
agency
Public Employment Services
15%
Other agencies
32%
Lessons learned
Communication plan and a widespread distribution of agencies to inform and
support people appropriately
Agreement with agencies, involvement in the implementation process
Simplification of procedures (unit cost, automatization) in order to increase
quality and effectiveness and to reduce the administrative burden
Increased awareness of enterprises
System of incentives (and disincentives) for virtuous behaviour (or against
opportunism)
Reproducing DUL: key factors
An accreditation model of public and private agencies, in order to
ensure quality and meet standards
Appropriate financial plan to ensure the integration of different
financial sources and the continuous support throught the time
An information system able to manage the high number of
applications
Awareness and engagement of all the relevant stakeholders