abstract: 'Successive Australian Governments have sought to improve the capacity of

  the employment service system to build jobseekers'' skills and

  capabilities and to promote transitions from income support to paid

  work. Yet despite these efforts, many jobseekers experience only short

  periods of employment, moving repeatedly between joblessness and

  positions with low skill requirements, low pay and few or fluctuating

  hours. This article explores ways to achieve more sustained transitions

  from welfare to work for disadvantaged jobseekers. We draw on data from

  a qualitative study of employment service providers who assisted

  jobseekers into work and the managers in the organisations that employed

  them. These informants'' perspectives underline the importance of

  improving the quality of jobs that require low levels of skills and

  experience and demonstrate some ways employers and employment services

  can better work together and provide more enduring and effective forms

  of support.'
author: Cortis, Natasha and Bullen, Jane and Hamilton, Myra
author_list:
- family: Cortis
  given: Natasha
- family: Bullen
  given: Jane
- family: Hamilton
  given: Myra
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1002/j.1839-4655.2013.tb00287.x
eissn: 1839-4655
files: []
issn: 0157-6321
journal: AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES
keywords: 'employment services; welfare to work; jobseekers; employment policy; job

  retention'
keywords-plus: JOB; HEALTH
language: English
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '56'
orcid-numbers: Cortis, Natasha/0000-0003-2035-6146
pages: 363-384
papis_id: a5ad53fd7aa771f17723c4714de68a54
ref: Cortis2013sustainingtransition
times-cited: '6'
title: 'Sustaining transitions from welfare to work: the perceptions of employers
  and employment service providers'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000331068600005
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '5'
volume: '48'
web-of-science-categories: Social Issues
year: '2013'