Brian Deakin, B. M. Deakin

The Youth Labour Market in Britain

The Role of Intervention

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780521553285
• ISBN-10: 0521553288
• Artikelnr.: 21805979

Inhaltsangabe

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.