Bowman, Dina and McGann, Michael and Kimberley, Helen and Biggs, Simon (2016) Activation and Active Ageing? Mature-Age Jobseekers' Experience of Employment Services. Social Policy and Society, 15 (4). pp. 647-658. ISSN 1474-7464

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Abstract

The number of mature-age Australians registered with employment services is growing, with mature-age jobseekers spending longer unemployed and on income support than younger jobseekers. However, the role of employment services in extending working lives has so far received little attention in policy discourses on ageing and employment. This article examines the effectiveness of Australia's employment services system in supporting mature-age jobseekers, drawing upon interviews conducted as part of wider research on unemployment and underemployment in mature-age. We find that the overriding experience among mature-age jobseekers’ is of a system that exudes ‘carelessness’. We situate mature-age jobseekers’ experiences of systemic carelessness within the context of wider welfare reforms that have contributed to the de-professionalisation and routinisation of employment services’ delivery.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Bowman, D., McGann, M., Kimberley, H., & Biggs, S. (2016). Activation and Active Ageing? Mature-Age Jobseekers' Experience of Employment Services. Social Policy and Society, 15(4), 647-658. doi:10.1017/S1474746416000245
Keywords:	older workers; employment services; unemployment; income support;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	14660
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746416000245
Depositing User:	Michael McGann
Date Deposited:	28 Jul 2021 15:51
Journal or Publication Title:	Social Policy and Society
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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