The Observatory’s economic inclusion team recently posted on this site to ask for any information on the causes and dynamics of worklessness for a literature review. The completed literature review is now available.
Key findings from the review are that:
- several groups of people are at high risk of worklessness – these include people in poor health, lone parents, some minority ethnic groups, social tenants, carers, and ex-offenders.
- disability/poor health and low qualifications are 2 of the most common barriers to employment
- many other barriers to employment were identified including a lack of work experience, low confidence, caring responsibilities, employer attitudes, poor public transport and the structure of the benefits system
- several factors influence a person’s decision to re-enter employment but the longer someone has been out of work, the less likely they are to return.
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