Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion

Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion presents “profiles” or “portraits” of individuals who have limited labor-market attachment. It is widely accepted that those with limited attachment to the labor market are a highly heterogeneous group (including, for instance, recent job losers, long-term unemplo...

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Main Authors: Sundaram, Ramya, Hoerning, Ulrich, De Andrade Falcao, Natasha, Millan, Natalia, Tokman, Carla, Zini, Michele
Format: Publications & Research
Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2015
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spelling okr-10986-216322021-04-23T14:04:03Z Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion Sundaram, Ramya Hoerning, Ulrich De Andrade Falcao, Natasha Millan, Natalia Tokman, Carla Zini, Michele cluster analysis EU-SILC labor market latent class analysis new member states social assistance social exclusion Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion presents “profiles” or “portraits” of individuals who have limited labor-market attachment. It is widely accepted that those with limited attachment to the labor market are a highly heterogeneous group (including, for instance, recent job losers, long-term unemployed, school leavers with no labor-market experience, those close to retirement age, or people with caring responsibilities), and that understanding their circumstances and potential barriers is an essential prerequisite for designing and implementing a tailored and effective mix of policy support and incentives. The report takes a comprehensive view, focusing on both the labor market attachment of a country’s out-of-work population and the social assistance package and poverty profile of the same segment of the population. In essence, the report looks at individuals through the lenses of both poverty/welfare status and labor market indicators, and, in doing so, the portraits helps move the dialogue from a purely labor market-centric view to a broader dialogue that includes social policy as a whole. This is an important shift; for instance, social protection programs, such as family benefits and maternity benefits, and broader social policy issues such as retirement ages, often have a great impact on who remains inactive. Specifically, the report presents portraits of the out-of-work population of six countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania) in terms of distance from the labor market, human capital, and labor supply conditions, as well as demographic conditions. The analysis relies on the European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) surveys for the years 2007 to 2011. Latent class analysis methodology allows multidimensional profiling of the out-of-work population, and identifies classes or groups of out-of-work individuals that are as homogeneous as possible within each class according to a set of observable characteristics, and as distant as possible between classes. 2015-03-26T21:04:32Z 2015-03-26T21:04:32Z 2015-06-30 978-1-4648-0539-4 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21632 en_US Directions in Development--Human Development; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Europe and Central Asia Eastern Europe European Union Greece
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topic cluster analysis
EU-SILC
labor market
latent class analysis
new member states
social assistance
social exclusion
spellingShingle cluster analysis
EU-SILC
labor market
latent class analysis
new member states
social assistance
social exclusion
Sundaram, Ramya
Hoerning, Ulrich
De Andrade Falcao, Natasha
Millan, Natalia
Tokman, Carla
Zini, Michele
Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Eastern Europe
European Union
Greece
relation Directions in Development--Human Development;
description Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion presents “profiles” or “portraits” of individuals who have limited labor-market attachment. It is widely accepted that those with limited attachment to the labor market are a highly heterogeneous group (including, for instance, recent job losers, long-term unemployed, school leavers with no labor-market experience, those close to retirement age, or people with caring responsibilities), and that understanding their circumstances and potential barriers is an essential prerequisite for designing and implementing a tailored and effective mix of policy support and incentives. The report takes a comprehensive view, focusing on both the labor market attachment of a country’s out-of-work population and the social assistance package and poverty profile of the same segment of the population. In essence, the report looks at individuals through the lenses of both poverty/welfare status and labor market indicators, and, in doing so, the portraits helps move the dialogue from a purely labor market-centric view to a broader dialogue that includes social policy as a whole. This is an important shift; for instance, social protection programs, such as family benefits and maternity benefits, and broader social policy issues such as retirement ages, often have a great impact on who remains inactive. Specifically, the report presents portraits of the out-of-work population of six countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania) in terms of distance from the labor market, human capital, and labor supply conditions, as well as demographic conditions. The analysis relies on the European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) surveys for the years 2007 to 2011. Latent class analysis methodology allows multidimensional profiling of the out-of-work population, and identifies classes or groups of out-of-work individuals that are as homogeneous as possible within each class according to a set of observable characteristics, and as distant as possible between classes.
format Publications & Research
author Sundaram, Ramya
Hoerning, Ulrich
De Andrade Falcao, Natasha
Millan, Natalia
Tokman, Carla
Zini, Michele
author_facet Sundaram, Ramya
Hoerning, Ulrich
De Andrade Falcao, Natasha
Millan, Natalia
Tokman, Carla
Zini, Michele
author_sort Sundaram, Ramya
title Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion
title_short Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion
title_full Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion
title_fullStr Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion
title_full_unstemmed Portraits of Labor Market Exclusion
title_sort portraits of labor market exclusion
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2015
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21632
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