The Youth Labour Market in Britain: The Role of Intervention

by B. M. Deakin

Overview

This book is concerned with the effects of successive government policies to promote the vocational education, training and employment of young people. The treatment is both historical and analytical, and is based on extensive field research. The Youth Labour Market in Britain studies over time demographic, educational, economic and technological developments, that have greatly influenced the youth labor market, and relates them to assessments of the effects on employers and the national economy. These effects are compared with the alternative, no-policy positions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521553285
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/22/1996
Series:	Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers , #62
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements; 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 intervention: 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index.