Youth Employment Policy in the Municipality of Copenhagen Job before benefit

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Youth Employment Policy in the Municipality of
CopenhagenJob before benefit

• An integrated Job Centre effort

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General Measures -One-stop Job Centres

• Purpose
• To establish one entry point for all target
  groups
• To focus on helping the unemployed back into work
  and to focus on the demands of the corporate
  sectors to promote an inclusive labour market
• This is done within the framework of the Job
  Centres with a view
• to ensure the shortest possible way to the labour
  market
• to streamline the employment programmes
  regardless of whether the unemployed in question
  is applying for cash benefit or unemployment
  insurance
• Target groups
• All citizens - employed and unemployed - in need
  of assistance with regard to employment and
  education
• All enterprises seeking assistance in finding
  potential employees

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JKS Statistics Direct access to the labour
market

• The majority of the people who find a job when
  assisted by the Jobcentre, find the job within
  thirty days of contacting the Jobcentre.

Objective After three months, 70 of the people
who are directed to a job at their first meeting
in the Jobcentre will no longer be on cash
benefit.
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Tasks of the Jobcentres

• Those who can take care of themselves shall take
  care of themselves
• Provide counselling and guidance for enterprises,
  jobseekers and for persons seeking education
• Key responsible for all unemployed regardless of
  measures
• Provide job opportunities engage in close
  collaboration with enterprises as well as
  assisting unemployed in finding vacancies and
  applying for jobs
• Provide retraining and upgrading of skills and
  qualifications
• Provide vocational training and guidance
• Provide subsidized work and enterprise practice
• Ensure proper registration in relevant Labour
  Market tools in order to provide transparency in
  the Labour Market

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Labour Market tools available to the Job Centres

• Jobnet.dk
• Country wide facility where available jobs
  unsubsidized as well as subsidized - can be
  registered with or without the assistance of the
  Job Centres
• CV of the unemployed has to be registered within
  the first month of unemployment
• Jobindsats.dk - an IT-based bench marking tool
  that shall
• Measure results and effects of the active labour
  policy
• Satisfy legal requirements and rights of the
  unemployed
• Arbejdsmarkedsportalen
• a web-based system that is used in the planning,
  execution and follow-up on the general and
  individual employment efforts consisting of 3
  parts Profiling system, Jobbarometer and Benefit
  history.

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Profiling system

• Why?
• A more uniform approach to a coherent employment
  policy where the evaluation of the unemployed is
  based on the same principles
• Purpose
• An initial and ongoing evaluation of the
  employment potential of the individual in order
  to
• provide a systematic and qualified evaluation of
  the individuals distance to the labour market and
  the need for early measures
• Target and prioritize the resources available to
  citizens in need of early measures
• Provide intensified, targeted and individual
  contact to those in need of early measures
• How?
• Employment Potential degree of match (through
  dialogue)
• 1-5 where 1 is immediate match and 5 is no match
• The lower the match for example 4 - the more
  intensified the contact
• Resources of the individual (through dialogue)
• 5 points of attention 1) Own employment
  perspective, 2) Formal and practical
  qualifications, 3) Personal competences, 4)
  Financial situation and networks and 5) Health
• Demands of the Labour Market
• When establishing the match the resources of the
  individual have to be take into consideration as
  well as the demands of the labour market.

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Profiling tools

• Pamphlet to the unemployed that prepares for the
  dialogue between the case worker and the
  unemployed
• Benefit history a web-based chronology of
  periods on public support
• Job Barometer a database which combines the
  unemployment history of the individual with
  persons with similar characteristics taken from
  statistics based on a historic survey of 1.2
  mill. persons with unemployment spells. On this
  basis the Job Barometer shows the employment
  potential of the individual.
• Dialogue guide that provides guidelines and
  points of attention for the case worker when
  talking with the individual

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The result of profiling in the 5 match
categories

• 56 of the people who visit JKS have problems
  in addition to their unemployment (match category
  4 and 5)

Objective For the long-term unemployed who have
been out of work for more than one year, the
average duration of unemployment should be
reduced by 5
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Specialized Measures Reinforced Youth
unemployement effort

• Youth unemployment effort (Rights and duties)
• Insured (after 6 months of unemployment instead
  of after 12 months)
• Young persons under the age of 30 with an
  education no particular demands
• Young persons under the age of 25 without an
  education 18 months of activation in the form
  of education and/or enterprise practice
• Uninsured (after 13 weeks of continuous
  unemployment)
• Young persons under the age of 30 who only have
  unemployment as a problem
• Without education 18 months of activation with a
  min. of 30 hrs per week including ordinary work
• With 6 months and min. 30 hrs per week including
  ordinary work
• Young persons under the age of 30 who have other
  problems than unemployment
• 18 months

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Focus on Youths

• At JKS there is a special focus on youths
  without formal qualifications
• Approx. 43 of the people who visit the
  Jobcentre are under 30 years old and have no
  formal qualifications
• Objective 50 of all youths who are at risk of
  dropping out of a vocational education are to
  carry on with the education or to start on a
  different one.

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Special Measures continued

• Reinforced Youth Unemployment Scheme in order to
  meet the
• Government Target 95 pct. of a youth cohort
  shall have en education
• The governing principles/ideas behind the scheme
• Self support before public support
• Ordinary education on equal terms with other
  young persons in ordinary education
• Student Financial Aid is more or less at the
  level of cash benefit for young persons under the
  age of 25

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Reinforced youth unemployment scheme continued

• The Scheme (18 to 25 years of age)
• Young persons on cash benefit under the age of 25
  who
• do not have an education that qualifies to the
  labour market (membership of an unemployment
  insurance fund),
• do not support children in their home and
• only have unemployment as their problem shall
• Take and ordinary education on equal financial
  conditions with other students
• It is the responsibility of the Job Centre to
• Establish whether they are within the target
  group that are obliged to take an ordinary
  education and whether sufficient support is
  available throughout the education
• Ensure that they seek and apply for one or more
  relevant educations within a given time limit
• Sanction those who do not cooperate with the Job
  Centre
• Sanction those who leave the chosen education
  without legitimate reasons

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Reinforced youth unemployment scheme continued

• The Scheme (25-30 years of age)
• Young persons on cash benefit between the age of
  25 and 30 who
• do not have an education that qualifies to the
  labour market (membership of an unemployment
  insurance fund),
• do not support children in their home and
• only have unemployment as their problem can
  choose to
• Take and ordinary education on equal financial
  conditions with other students
• If they choose education 8 weeks are allowed to
  find appropriate education
• If they dont choose 8 weeks of activation
  measures are instigated after 5 weeks of
  unemployment in the form of enterprise practice
  or specially arranged projects
• It is the responsibility of the Job Centre to
• Ensure participation in the education scheme or
  in activation alongside with participation in
  general measures
• Ensure that they seek and apply for one or more
  relevant educations within a given time limit
• Sanction those who do not cooperate with the Job
  Centre
• Sanction those who leave the chosen education
  without legitimate reasons

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Specialized Measures in Copenhagen Municipality

• Local Measures within the political framework of
  the Municipalities
• Focus on
• Negative Social Development in particular areas
  in Copenhagen with a high concentration of
  unemployed through
• Jobpatrols
• Cooperation with other locally based counselling
  and guidance facilities
• Containment of isolation and poverty through
• Intensified effort to ensure that as few as
  possible lose there cash benefit because they do
  not fulfill the requirement of 300 hours of
  ordinary work within a 2-year period
• Education to all young people
• Warning system in cooperation with the
  educational system for young people who are at
  risk of dropping out of education
• Mentor support during an education
• For young criminals there is a program of
  extended mentor support in combination with job
  from 3 to 12 months

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Benefit Levels

• Unemployment Insurance
• Maximum of 3,203 Dkr. (430 euro) per week
  (individually calculated based on earlier income)
• Approximately 1,602 Dkr. (215 euro) per week for
  young persons under the age of 25 without an
  education who after 6 months of unemployment
  enter into activation
• Cash Benefit
• 11,174 Dkr. (1500 euro) per month for persons
  under and over the age of 25 who support children
• 8,409 Dkr. (1130 euro) per month for persons over
  the age of 25 who do not support children
  including expectant mothers under the age of 25
• 5,419 Dkr. (727 euro) per month for persons
  under the age of 25
• 4,506 Dkr. (605 euro) per month for persons under
  the age of 25 after 6 months
• 2,616 Dkr. (351 euro) per month for persons under
  the age of 25 who live at home
• 2,240 Dkr. (300 euro) per month for persons under
  the age of 25 after 6 months who live at home