BC Centre for Employment Excellence
NextStep is a research and innovation project where industry professionals provide group and individual mentorship to recently educated graduates who are unemployed to help them better integrate into the British Columbia (BC) labour market. It is designed to offer personal … Continue reading
While the proportion of working-age individuals relying on Disability Insurance (DI) benefits has increased, the labour market integration of people with disabilities remains very low. In the OECD, the mean DI beneficiary rate among working-age individuals was 5.8% in 2008 and … Continue reading
In the face of proliferating data sources and research technologies, budget cutbacks, and the growing prominence of performance-based programs and evidence-based policy-making, there has been an increase in demand for faster, cheaper program evaluation. To address this need, the Center … Continue reading
Though most people with psychiatric disabilities show a desire to work, they are more likely to experience negative labour market outcomes than those without these disabilities. Moreover, work is often critical to their recovery and functioning by increasing their self-esteem and … Continue reading
Employment programs often do not work as intended owing to behavioural responses of clients to different aspects of the programs. For example, some people do not participate in all available services offered by a program, or others drop out of … Continue reading
