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Author:

GRAHAM John R.; JONES Marion E.; SHIER Michael;

Title:

Tipping points: what participants found valuable in labour market training programmes for vulnerable groups.

Reference:

International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(1), January 2010, pp.63-72

ISSN paper:

1369-6866

ISSN online:

1468-2397

Abstract:

This article is based on face-to-face and focus group interviews with 72 people who have experienced ongoing difficulties integrating into Canadian labour markets, and who had completed a labour market training programme. Participants encountered one or more of the following disadvantages: low socio-economic status, Aboriginal status, single parenthood, criminal justice history and being disabled. The major finding: respondents associated life skills rather than labour-market skills with success in overcoming personal barriers to employment. Life skills involved developing life meaning and interpersonal skills related to personal cognition and behaviours, such as gaining a new perspective on life, understanding personal characteristics and motivations and building positive social support and social capital. These insights provide theoretically rich considerations for labour market training programmes and could considerably influence labour market policies and practices, particularly since most training programmes and policies are geared toward human capital (i.e. labour-market skills) accumulation.

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Format:

article;

Topics:

black and minority ethnic people; disabled people; indigenous people; labour market; self-esteem; single parent families; social welfare; training; unemployment;

Content Type:

research;

Country/Region:

Canada;

Record ID:

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