Research summary: Factors affecting Labour Market Development Agreements and Workforce Development Agreements client outcomes
Official title: Factors affecting Labour Market Development Agreement (LMDA) and Workforce Development Agreement (WDA) client outcomes
Authors of the report: Michelle G. Laing, Mamadou Diallo and Samuel Laryea
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Why this study
The Government of Canada gives funding to provinces and territories to help people and businesses with training and job assistance. By checking how well these programs work, we can see who gets the most help and find better ways to help groups that are harder to reach.
What we did
We used different methods to look at data from the Systems and Analytical Data for Results Division at Employment and Social Development Canada. This included descriptive analysis and multinomial regressions. These methods helped us understand how the characteristics of clients in the LMDA and WDA programs and the help they received affected their action plan results from January 2019 to March 2024.
What we found
About 3/4 of clients in the LMDA program and more than 1/2 of clients in the WDA program found jobs or started their own businesses by the end of their action plans. They were more likely to get jobs when they had certain traits like:
- being male
- having a college or university degree
- not having any disabilities
- speaking 2 languages well (bilingual)
- using the programs often, meaning they had multiple action plans or services
- having 'work experience' or an 'apprenticeship' as the most important service in their action plans
Women using the programs were usually older than the men.
Most clients got help in the language they were most comfortable with, especially if their first language that was not English or French.
What it means
Using LMDA and WDA services helps people find jobs more easily and need less help from the government. Also, 'Apprenticeships' and 'Work Experience' were found to be very effective ways to help people do well in getting jobs. This is important because many people think jobs in trades are only good as a second choice.
Contact us
For access to the full report, please contact us using the email address below.
Skills and Employment Branch, Labour Market Information Directorate, Policy Research Analysis and Geomatics Division
Email: esdc.nc.sspb.research-recherche.dgpss.cn.edsc@esdc-edsc.gc.ca