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Title

The youth labour market in Britain : the role of intervention / B.M. Deakin.

Author

Deakin, B. M. (Brian Measures)

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Description

xvi, 223 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• This book assesses the efforts of successive British government policies to promote the vocational education, training and employment of young people. Based on extensive field research, it presents a comprehensive survey of this important and developing branch of labour economics. The author looks at the subject both historically and analytically, using an examination of human capital theory and the economic theory of training to provide a context for his research.
• He relates demographic, educational, economic and technological developments to the effects of successive government training and employment schemes on young people, on employers and on the national economy. He looks at the relationship between the attainment of skills by young people on official training schemes and the demand for skills, and goes on to examine the views of critics of government policies and the reactions of the trade unions.
• Through a comparison with the alternative, no-policy position, Mr Deakin detects an erratic policy-learning process which has important implications for future government policy in this area.

Series Statement

Occasional paper / University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Economics ; 62

Uniform Title

Occasional papers (University of Cambridge. Department of Applied Economics) ; 62.

Subject

• Youth > Government policy > Great Britain
• Occupational training > Government policy > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Demographic structure, capacity and economic activity -- 3. Supply to the youth labour market -- 4. Vocational and educational training in historical perspective -- 5. Direct government interventions: early schemes -- 6. The development of the modern system of youth training -- 7. The first stage in the vocational education and training sequence -- 8. Methodology of assessment -- 9. An assessment of the economic effects of the Youth Training Scheme upon employment and employers -- 10. Some macroeconomic effects of YTS -- 11. The skill attainments of YTS trainees in relation to the demand for skilled labour -- 12. The devolution of intervention and the movement towards quasi-markets -- 13. Some critics of the government's youth training intervention -- 14. Collaboration and opposition from trade unions -- 15. Results and conclusions -- Appendix: Resource endowment.

ISBN

0521553288 (hc)

LCCN

95035113

OCLC

• 32893347
• ocm32893347

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Columbia University Libraries