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From full employment to employability: a new deal for Britain’s unemployed?

Finn, Dan - In: International Journal of Manpower 21 (2000) 5, pp. 384-399

Britain’s New Labour Government has radically shifted its policy aims away from securing traditional full employment … an intense phase of policy development and experimentation and outlines the immediate impact they have had. The …

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Private sector postgraduate training and graduate overeducation

McGuinness, Seamus - In: International Journal of Manpower 23 (2002) 6, pp. 527-541

This paper reports the results of an evaluation examining the effectiveness of a private sector graduate training initiative in reducing the incidence of overeducation among its participants. It was found that the initiative reduced job‐search frictions within the graduate labour market...

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The adoption of family‐friendly HRM policies

Poelmans, Steven A.Y.; Chinchilla, Nuria; Cardona, Pablo - In: International Journal of Manpower 24 (2003) 2, pp. 128-147

Several authors have tried to explain the variation across firms in the implementation of work‐family programmes in terms of the employment strategy of these firms and institutional pressures. But most of these studies have been done in the US context. This study replicates these studies in...

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Wage Subsidies for the Disabled: A Discussion of their Impact in Australia

Mangan, John - In: International Journal of Manpower 11 (1990) 1, pp. 20-25

became an interesting test of the general policy of using market variables to influence what many regard as essentially a …

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Small Firms Policy and its Regional Implications in Britain

Stanworth, John; Stanworth, Celia - In: International Journal of Manpower 11 (1990) 6, pp. 8-16

Under the Thatcher Government′s “Enterprise Culture”, the size of the small business sector has frequently been taken as a key indicator of economic success in Britain. Measurement of achievement in such terms does indeed indicate a high degree of economic buoyancy. However, a deeper...

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Training Policy and Economic Theory: A Policy Maker′s Perspective

Marquand, Judith - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 2, pp. 59-71

Gives some definitions of training and training policy, before discussing how policy is made and its relationship to … context, including stakeholders and the range of policy instruments. Suggests that the role of theory is to structure policy … case studies: TECs, where major policy decisions have little to do with conventional economic analysis; and public …

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UK Training Policy and the Role of TECs

Hodgson, David - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 8, pp. 3-16

Examines the roles, problems and potential of TECs in the UK, within the framework of the 1988 White Paper, Employment for the 1990s , as a catalyst for providing a world‐class workforce. TECs are seen to have faced problems internally as well as being subject to varying external constraints....

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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in France Revisited

Benhayoun, Gilbert - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 82-85

Recent studies of the French experience find a small, negative impact of the minimum wage on young persons′ employment, a finding which has led to a political debate over the role of sub‐minimum wage rates for youths. The current study initially aimed simply to update previous work. However,...

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Market Failure, Institutional Structure and Skill‐formation

McNabb, Robert; Whitfield, Keith - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 5, pp. 5-15

Examines the link between the institutional structure of the market for training and economic performance. Suggests that the market for training has a major potential for failure and that institutional structures are eeded to mitigate this. Outlines the main structures which have been developed...

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Evaluations of Labour Market Policy in Sweden

Björklund, Anders - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 5, pp. 16-31

Outlines the current state of evaluation research in Sweden. Concludes that it is limited in scope relative to the USA despite the much larger expenditure on labour market policies in Sweden. Locates this deficiency in the differential research infrastructure of the two countries.

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