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# Conclusion # Conclusion
The section with conclude with reflections on the implications of findings for policy. The preceding study undertook a systematic scoping review of the literature on inequalities in the world of work.
It focused on the variety of approaches to policy interventions, from institutional to structural to more agency-driven programmes,
and highlighted the inequalities targeted, analysed in subsequent study, their methods and limitations,
to arrive at a picture of which lays out the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches.
Wide gaps exist between the research on existing topics within the areas and intersections of inequalities in the world of work.
First, while regionally research on such inequalities seems relatively evenly distributed,
focus prevalence on individual inequalities varies widely.
Research into interventions preventing income inequality are still the dominant form of measured outcomes,
which makes sense for its prevailing usefulness through a variety of indicators and its use to investigate both vertical and horizontal inequalities.
However, care should be taken not to over-emphasize the reliance on income inequality outcomes:
they can obscure intersections with other inequalities,
or diminish the perceived importance of tackling other inequalities themselves, if not directly measurable through income.
Thus, while interventions attempt to tackle the inequality from a variety of institutional, structural and agency-oriented approaches already,
this could be further enhanced by putting a continuous focus on the closely intertwined intersectional nature of the issue.
Gender inequality is an almost equally considered dimension in the interventions,
a reasonable conclusion due to the inequality's global ubiquity and persistence.
Most gender-oriented policy approaches tackle it directly alongside income inequality outcomes,
especially viewed through gender pay gaps and economic (dis-)empowerment,
tackling it from backgrounds of structural or agency-driven interventions.
While both approaches seem fruitful in different contexts, few interventions strive to provide a holistic approach which combines the individual-level with macro-impacts,
tackling both institutional-structural issues while driving concerns of agency simultaneously.
Spatial inequalities are primarily viewed through rural-urban divides,
concerning welfare, opportunities and employment probabilities.
Spatially focused interventions primarily tackle infrastructural issues which should be an effective avenue since most positive interventions are focused on the structural dimension of the inequality.
However, too many interventions, especially focused on reducing income inequalities,
still do not take spatial components fully into view,
potentially leading to worse outcomes for inequalities along the spatial dimension.
Disabilities are rarely viewed through lenses other than employment opportunities.
While most interventions already focus on dimensions of strengthening agency and improved integration or reintegration of individuals with disabilities into the world of work,
a wider net needs to be cast with future research focusing on developing regions and the effects of more institutional-structural approaches before clearer recommendations can be given based on existing evidence.
Ethnicity and migration provide dimensions of inequalities which are, while more evenly distributed regionally,
still equally underdeveloped in research on evidence-based intervention impacts.
Currently, there is a strong focus on institutional-structural approaches,
which seems to follow the literature in what is required for effective interventions.
However, similarly to research on inequalities based on disability, there are clear gaps in research
on ethnicity and especially migration, before clearer pictures of what works can develop.
The intertwined nature of inequalities, once recognized, requires intervention approaches which heed multi-dimensional issues and can flexibly intervene and subsequently correctly measure their relative effectiveness.
To do so, perspectives need to shift and align towards a new, more intersectional approach which can incorporate both a wider array of methodological approaches between purely quantitative and qualitative research,
while relying on indicators for measurement which are flexible yet overlapping enough to encompass such a broadened perspective.
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