Chapter 21. Re-skilling and inequalities of capabilities in France: how socio-economic groups matter

Camille Stephanus and Josiane Vero (josiane.vero@cereq.fr)
Additional contact information
Camille Stephanus: CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche
Josiane Vero: CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Re-skilling has become a central feature to making worker's career path more secure but also to responding to labour market shortages and supporting the green and digital transitions. However, the implementation of these policy lines raises delicate questions as to how the responsibility for reskilling should be shared. The capability approach is used here to raise critical issues about transformations of reskilling policies. Based on the French longitudinal quantitative survey DEFIS, the study show that the implementation of these policy lines contributes to shape inequalities between social groups of the capability to attend reskilling programs and to secure their career paths: low-skilled workers have less capability for reskilling ensuing from the fact that they operate in more opaque environments, less benefit from ambitious reskilling schemes, and face fewer valuable achievements. What makes their pathway so difficult to achieve doesn't depend so much on their motivation or willpower.

Keywords: Re-skilling; inequalities; capabilities; Opportunity-freedom; policies; DEFIS survey; Low-skilled worker (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-03982018v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in Marcella Milana, University of Verona; Palle Rasmussen, Aalborg University; Margherita Bussi, University of Louvain. Research Handbook on Adult Education Policy, In press

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-03982018v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03982018

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD (hal@ccsd.cnrs.fr).