{"id":115333,"date":"2023-07-05T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T06:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/austrias-new-answer-to-long-term-unemployment\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T06:10:46","slug":"austrias-new-answer-to-long-term-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/austrias-new-answer-to-long-term-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria\u2019s new answer to long-term unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115333\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nAfter spending years at home bringing up her two children, electrical systems technician Sarah Sklenicka found it a \u201cbig challenge\u201d to get back into the job market. But now the 37-year-old is ready to take on anything thanks to an experimental Austrian scheme, which claims to be a world first in tackling long-term unemployment. The village of Gramatneusiedl near Vienna now has a zero jobless rate after guaranteeing work to all its 129 long-term unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>The project shows it is possible to eradicate this stubbornly difficult problem at a community level, said economist Oliver Picek of Vienna\u2019s Momentum Institute. \u201cIt is possible to give a job to everyone who needs one,\u201d he told AFP. The MAGMA pilot project offers training in carpentry, gardening, sewing and other work the community or local businesses need at minimum wage rates to everyone who has been out of work for more than one year. Before starting, they get eight weeks of counselling to identify their strengths and goals, with many reporting that the project has helped rebuild their self-confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel a lot more confident now about applying somewhere. I have the feeling that I can actually do it\u201d and secure a job outside of the project, said Sklenicka, who has been making and renovating furniture part-time for the past year. Yasemin Yaman does carpentry and sewing and has overcome depression. Organisers said all but a dozen of the village\u2019s long-term unemployed took up the training offer, and that was because of health problems.<\/p>\n<p>Economist Picek said the success of the hyper-local approach was \u201ca proof of concept of the idea of job guarantees\u201d. Although Austria\u2019s unemployment rate is below the EU average at 4.6 percent, the Alpine nation has labour shortages in many sectors, and part of the population remains marginalised. Gramatneusiedl\u2019s labour market was typical of Lower Austria, making it a perfect test bed for the province\u2019s employment service.<\/p>\n<p>The big challenge for the scheme was \u201cwhat do you do with certain people who we cannot integrate into the primary job market?\u201d said the service\u2019s deputy director Sandra Kern. The village of 4,000 also happens to be the site of a pioneering 1933 study on mass unemployment during the Great Depression. It remains to be seen whether the four-year MAGMA project \u2014 which costs less than 30,000 euros ($32,500) per person a year, an amount comparable to unemployment benefit \u2014 will be prolonged or adopted more widely, Kern said. But a study of the scheme by Oxford University found \u201cstrong positive impacts\u2026 on participants\u2019 economic and non-economic well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/business\/austrias-new-answer-to-long-term-unemployment\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/austrias-new-answer-to-long-term-unemployment\/\">Austria\u2019s new answer to long-term unemployment<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2743,6280,2789,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-115333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-austria","tag-long-term","tag-unemployment","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}