Worklessness and sustainable employment: Call for information

The Observatory’s Economic Inclusion team is currently investigating what evidence, data and research is available on these two topics:

• Causes of worklessness
  This will include looking at the relationships between causal factors such as poor health, poverty, poor skills etc., movements in and out of the labour market and the dynamics of worklessness, issues of benefit dependency and benefits as a disincentive to formal employment.

• Sustainability of employment
  In particular, we are looking for data and research that show how long people stay in work once entering employment after a period of worklessness. We would also be interested in any data or research that is available that considers factors such as demography, geography and industrial sector and the influence that these might have on sustainable employment.