an article by Antti Saloniemi, Katri Romppainen and Pekka Virtanen (University of Tampere, Finland) and Mattias Strandh (University of Umeå, Sweden) published in Work Employment & Society Volume 28 Number 4 (August 2014)
Abstract
In this study we investigate the effects of active labour market policy measures on health and well-being and how these effects are connected with socioeconomic status.
The data were collected among the participants (n = 212) in 24 conventional vocational training courses in Finland.
According to the results, training was accompanied by improvements in health and well-being among participants with a higher socioeconomic status, whereas for blue-collar workers the changes were neutral or even detrimental.
The results raise questions about the role of active labour market policy measures as a public service. There seems to be a risk that these types of measures maintain or even produce health differences between socioeconomic groups.
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