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Lindley, Robert M. (1987) British employment measures : policy and evidence. Labour Review of Market Economics and Industrial Relations, 1 (2). pp. 3-27. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9914.1987.tb00111.x ISSN 1121-7081.
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Abstract
This paper examines how British labour market policy has developed over the decade up to mid-1986 and summarises the evidence available on the effects of the so-called 'special employment measures'. Given the wide range of schemes and the variations in rules governing them as they evolved, no attempt is made to give details of the different schemes. The aims are to identify the main shifts in policy and to address the principal methodological and empirical issues which arise in attempting to evaluate policy. The main focus of the paper is on those measures which have been designed to increase employment without threatening the attempts by successive governments first to restrain the growth of public expenditure and then to reduce the level in real terms. The mainstream macroeconomic and labour market strategy continues to stress the need for fiscal and monetary restraint combined with much greater labour market flexibility. Whilst the paper is concerned with employment measures, the Youth Training Scheme is also included. It represents the biggest of all the programmes initiated during the last decade or so of policy intervention and is concerned with providing employment as well as training opportunities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Employment Research | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Manpower policy -- Great Britain, Full employment policies -- Great Britain, Occupational training -- Great Britain, Unemployed -- Training of -- Great Britain, Labor market -- Great Britain | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Labour Review of Market Economics and Industrial Relations | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||
ISSN: | 1121-7081 | ||||
Official Date: | September 1987 | ||||
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Volume: | 1 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 23 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 3-27 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-9914.1987.tb00111.x | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Description: | Paper presented at the International Conference on the Employment Problem: Strategies for European Countries, organized by the Associazione Italiana degli Economisti del Lavoro, Rome, 17-18 October, 1986. |
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