Ingold, J orcid.org/0000-0001-8088-8262 and Valizade, D orcid.org/0000-0003-3005-2277 (2017) Employers’ recruitment of disadvantaged groups: exploring the effect of active labour market programme agencies as labour market intermediaries. Human Resource Management Journal, 27 (4). pp. 530-547. ISSN 0954-5395
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors. Human Resource Management Journal Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 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. |
Keywords: | recruitment; employability; selection; discrimination; active labour market programmes; labour market intermediaries |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC ES/K008617/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2017 10:43 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 22:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1748-8583.12154 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:114877 |