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A Bermuda triangle of policy? 'Bad jobs', skills policy and incentives to learn at the bottom end of the labour market
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A focus of Government policy has been the need to ensure that those at the lower end of the labour market invest in their human capital through re-engaging with learning, which has been assumed to enable progress into better-paid employment. This article explores the problems created by 'bad jobs' and the evidence for the existence of a set of mutually reinforcing factors that reduces the incentives acting on individuals in such work, and in many cases their employers, to participate and inve...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 211-230
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1464-5106
- ISSN:
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0268-0939
- Source identifiers:
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316555
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:316555
- Deposit date:
- 2014-12-26
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- 2012
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