eprintid: 10091576
rev_number: 22
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/10/09/15/76
datestamp: 2020-02-21 13:01:58
lastmod: 2021-12-10 23:55:28
status_changed: 2020-02-21 13:01:58
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Hoskins, B
creators_name: Leonard, P
creators_name: Wilde, R
title: How effective is youth volunteering as an employment strategy?: A mixed methods study of England
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
keywords: employment, mixed methods, transitions, unpaid work, volunteer, youth
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: Volunteering is routinely advocated in British policy as a key mechanism for young people to gain employment, but with little evidence of its viability as a strategy. Indeed, the limited research in this area suggests the link is weak and that access to good quality volunteering is differentiated along class lines. This article draws on a mixed methods approach, using survey data from the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Survey and qualitative interviews, to analyse the relationship between youth volunteering and employment. It finds that volunteering is not unequivocally beneficial for employment, particularly if it does not offer career-related experience or is imposed rather than self-initiated. It can even have a negative effect on employment. Furthermore, social class mediates access to volunteering opportunities most likely to convert into employment. We conclude there is little evidence to support policy assumptions that, in the short term, volunteering has a positive relationship to paid employment.
date: 2020
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520914840
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1758183
doi: 10.1177/0038038520914840
lyricists_name: Wilde, Rachel
lyricists_id: RJWIL24
actors_name: Austen, Jennifer
actors_id: JAUST66
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Sociology
citation:        Hoskins, B;    Leonard, P;    Wilde, R;      (2020)    How effective is youth volunteering as an employment strategy?: A mixed methods study of England.                   Sociology        10.1177/0038038520914840 <https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520914840>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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