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Active Labour Market Programs in Ontario – A need to better tailor job programs
About 450,000 Ontarians are on social assistance, costing the province $2.8 billion annually, according to a new study from the C.D. Howe Institute. In ‘Assessing Active Labour-Market Programs: How Effective is Ontario Works?’ authors Jason Adams, Ken Chow and David Rosé examine the success of various Ontario Works programs in getting welfare recipients back into … Continue reading
Ontario – Employment programs have not kept pace with the changing labour market
In Working Paper 29, The labour market shift: Training a highly skilled and resilient workforce in Ontario, the Institute examines Ontario’s changing labour market and skills, employer-driven training, and government skills training programs. Ontario’s labour market has changed. For Ontarians to remain resilient in face of this change, they must be equipped with skills that are transferable … Continue reading
Job Programs in US – A positive effect on well-being research finds
Programs designed to help disadvantaged workers improve their labor-market prospects may have effects beyond improvements in employment rates and income. One possible supplementary effect is improvements in subjective well-being, or how participants feel about their current life situations. Subjective well-being is important because there are social costs related to lower levels of well-being, and because … Continue reading
UK / Views on how should long-term unemployment be tackled?
How should long-term unemployment be tackled in UK ? Continue reading
Unemployment needs city-specific solutions
Centre for Cities launches Cities Outlook 2012 today, which shows how cities are fairing against the backdrop of a sluggish national economy. This year the report focuses on unemployment in our largest urban areas. For this reason both the government and the work programme providers must take a varied response to the UK’s unemployment problem. … Continue reading
UK | Unpaid work experience | Boots leaves scheme for long-term unemployed
Boots says it is withdrawing from the government’s scheme to help the long-term unemployed find work. It comes on the same day that ministers had to drop sanctions from a separate scheme that offers work experience to younger jobseekers. Boots said that it would no longer be offering any new placements on the work programme, … Continue reading
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