Employability, poverty and the spheres of sociability – evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

Canduela, Jesus and Lindsay, Colin and Raeside, Robert and Graham, Helen (2015) Employability, poverty and the spheres of sociability – evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Social Policy and Administration, 49 (5). pp. 571-592. ISSN 0144-5596 (https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12101)

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Abstract

Policymakers in the UK and beyond have sought to promote interventions to encourage social capital-building among disadvantaged groups. One specific concern is that those with limited access to social capital/social network relationships will be at greater risk of experiencing both unemployment and poverty. By analyzing longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), we seek to identify significant relationships between poverty and the likelihood of entering employment, and different measures of ‘sociability’ and social isolation. Crucially, we discuss if and how measures of sociability/social isolation are associated with jobseekers' varying chances of exiting and re-entering work and how this varies with their experience of poverty. These issues are important because if sociability impacts on the likelihood of entering employment from a state of worklessness, then policymakers need to understand how cycles of social and labour market exclusion are associated with the rates of entering employment in order to develop effective interventions to improve jobseekers' employability and combat poverty. Following an analysis of BHPS data, we identify lessons for policy for combating long-term unemployment and promoting social inclusion.

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Canduela, Jesus, Lindsay, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2493-6797, Raeside, Robert and Graham, Helen;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:49153
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    September 2015
    Published
    1 September 2014
    Published Online
    Notes:This is the accepted version of the following article: Canduela, J., Lindsay, C., Raeside, R. and Graham, H. (2015), Employability, Poverty and the Spheres of Sociability – Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Social Policy & Administration, 49:5 571-592, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12101.
    Subjects:Social Sciences > Sociology
    Social Sciences > Communities. Classes. Races
    Department:Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:09 Sep 2014 14:33
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 10:45
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/49153
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