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Employers' recruitment of disadvantaged groups : Exploring the effect of active labour market programme agencies as labour market intermediaries
Ingold, Joanne Valizade, Danat
Ingold, Joanne
Valizade, Danat
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Abstract
This article draws on an original comparative survey of employers in the UK and Denmark to analyse the role of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) in employers' recruitment of disadvantaged groups. Using the framework of Bonet et al. to conceptualise agencies delivering ALMPs as labour market intermediaries (LMIs), the effect of ALMPs on employers' recruitment was tested against organisational factors involving firm size and selection criteria. Although ALMPs marginally increased employers' probability of recruiting the long-term unemployed in both countries and lone parents in Denmark, their effect was negligible compared with firm size and employers' selection criteria. While ALMP agencies have the potential to increase employers' recruitment of disadvantaged groups, this is constrained when they act as basic ‘information provider’ LMIs. ALMP agencies' inability to act effectively as ‘matchmaker’ LMIs leads to a failure to overcome rigid intra-organisational barriers to such recruitment.
Keywords
recruitment, employability, slection, discrimination, active labour market programmes, labour market intermediaries
Date
2017
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
27
Issue
4
Page Range
530-547
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ACU Department
Peter Faber Business School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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CC BY 4.0
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Open
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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2017 The Authors. Human Resource Management Journal Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
This article is based on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Grant No. ES/K008617/1).
© 2017 The Authors. Human Resource Management Journal Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
This article is based on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Grant No. ES/K008617/1).