Policy Target
Education and training
EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGY
Initiatives address the educational and workforce training needs of people with no certification or degree to increase their employability, chances for securing better jobs with higher wages, and power to negotiate work conditions.
SAMPLE INDICATORS
- Levels of dependence on supports from government units and organizations
- Average program receipt duration
- Multiple, complex disadvantages experienced within and across generations
- Number/percentage of adults earning their first degree or certification
- Number/percentage of adults who previously did not have certification or degree transitioning to higher paying jobs
- Number/percentage of adults who earned their first degree or certification and who feel they can request a salary increase
- Unemployment rate (e.g., stratified by education)
- Employment rate in the informal sector (e.g., stratified by race/ethnicity)
EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGY
Initiatives provide equitable access to free or low-cost, high-quality education and workforce training. Initiatives seek to improve opportunities for all people – irrespective of their social backgrounds and identities – to secure socially and economically valuable jobs with economic security and a social safety net.
SAMPLE INDICATORS
- Rate of participation in apprenticeships among eligible people (e.g., stratified by age, sex, and gender)
- Rates of part-time and full-time employment (e.g., stratified by race/ethnicity, age, sex, and gender)
- Number/percentage of people feeling they can fully participate in civic and social life
- Participants’ likelihood of being placed in a job with health insurance benefits
EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGY
Initiatives adjust their programs to ensure qualifications, skills, and work experience of adults and youth are matched with the changing dynamics of the labour market, its needs and demands.
SAMPLE INDICATORS
- Number/percentage of staff who feel their programs adjust content and types of education and training whenever needed to better respond to the future knowledge and skills demands of a diversified workforce
- Number/percentage of affordable or no-cost education and training courses, career planning tools, and other resources that quickly adapt to the latest changes in labour market
- Qualification mismatch (e.g., stratified by immigration status)
EVIDENCE-BASED STRATEGY
Initiatives address the intergenerational transmission of the disadvantage cycle faced by working age groups who are the most exposed to chronic unemployment, such as people experiencing disability, racialized peoples, and older workers.
SAMPLE INDICATORS
- Generational complex disadvantage
- Intergenerational transmission of welfare-income
- Number/percentage of adults who grew up in low-income households who report working in higher paying jobs than their parents
- Average income of the children when adults compared with income of their parents (e.g., for people with disadvantaged backgrounds)