Putting Workfare in Place
Putting Workfare in Place

Author: Peter Sunley

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1444399764

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This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK. Argues that profound differences in local labour market conditions have exerted a telling influence on the New Deal’s achievements Includes extensive new research data on the current conditions of local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the New Deal Illustrated by a large series of original maps and figures. Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policy actors.

Local Labour Markets
Local Labour Markets

Author: Mike Campbell

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Based on recent research, this text examines the key issues affecting the local labour market that local authorities need to address. It offers an examination of the nature of problems and an analysis of the range of policies and practices that can be pursued to alleviate them.

Employability and Local Labour Markets
Employability and Local Labour Markets

Author: Ronald W. McQuaid

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1317970462

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The concept of employability has provided a foundation for much current labour market policy. It has also provided a useful framework for analyzing national and urban labour markets and related policies in a variety of different circumstances both for those in and out of work. The papers in this book help progress the concept of employability, demonstrating the importance of the geographic and spatial context, and showing its flexibility and usefulness as a basis for theory, analysis and policy. The papers are divided into two main sections: understanding the concept of employability lessons for labour market policy in changing labour markets. The chapters also provide general insights into many current labour market policy debates. As employability continues to be the foundation of many labour market policies, this volume considers the economic and geographical dimensions of employability in local labour market analysis and policy. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Urban Studies.

Work-place
Work-place

Author: Jamie Peck

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 1996-04-06

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781572300446

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Challenging the prevailing idea that labor markets are governed by universal economic processes, this significant work argues instead that labor markets develop in tandem with social and political institutions, and thus function in locally specific ways. Focusing on the complex social processes that lie at the heart of the labor market, the author offers a provocative new perspective and proposes new ways of conducting research in the area.

Handbook of Labor Economics
Handbook of Labor Economics

Author: Orley Ashenfelter

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 1999-11-18

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 9780444501899

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A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics.

Unemployment and Local Labour Markets
Unemployment and Local Labour Markets

Author: Peter Robinson

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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This book brings together studies conducted by university research teams in six distinct local labour markets, with a special focus on the problems faced by the long term unemployed in those labour markets, the capacity for public authorities to create jobs directly, and the usefulness of official databases on labour demand and supply. This book largely rejects the picture which has grown up of the long term unemployed as being effectively detatched from the labour force, with important implications for economic policy. It casts doubt on the ability of public authorities to create jobs quickly and cheaply. It also casts doubt on the usefulness of official databases for the planning of training and other provision, at a time when the new Training and Enterprise councils are taking over such provision without, it would seem, an appreciation of the information on which to base their planning.

Local labour market analysis
Local labour market analysis

Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2007-11-14

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780102951240

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This NAO report considers the patterns of work and worklessness in the United Kingdom, with an analysis on national, regional and local level. The report sets out a number of findings, including: that competition for vacancies is greater in some regions and local areas than others; the workless population have significantly lower qualifications than the work-in population, and in their last job, were more likely to have worked in lower skilled jobs; that the economically inactive have characteristics that are further removed from the employed than those of the unemployed; the relationship between qualifications, jobs and worklessness is not simple; disability has an impact on working and worklessness; black and minority ethnic groups have a lower employment rate, however the degree of the employment gap varies between areas; Jobsearch methods of the workless differ substantially from the methods reported as successful by those in work; Jobcentre use varies by region, sector, qualification level, and ethnicity; local area analysis shows significant differences within and between locations

Labor Markets and Business Cycles
Labor Markets and Business Cycles

Author: Robert Shimer

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2010-04-12

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1400835232

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Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes. Robert Shimer shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important for explaining the volatile behavior of the unemployment rate in business cycles. The book focuses on the labor wedge that arises when the marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure does not equal the marginal product of labor. According to competitive models of the labor market, the labor wedge should be constant and equal to the labor income tax rate. But in U.S. data, the wedge is strongly countercyclical, making it seem as if recessions are periods when workers are dissuaded from working and firms are dissuaded from hiring because of an increase in the labor income tax rate. When job searches are time consuming and wages are flexible, search frictions--the cost of a job search--act like labor adjustment costs, further exacerbating inconsistencies between the competitive model and data. The book shows that wage rigidities can reconcile the search model with the data, providing a quantitatively more accurate depiction of labor markets, consumption, and investment dynamics. Developing detailed search and matching models, Labor Markets and Business Cycles will be the main reference for those interested in the intersection of labor market dynamics and business cycle research.