Journal article
Beyond 'employability'
Concentrating on British welfare-to-work policy, the paper presents a critique of 'employability-based' approaches to supply-side intervention in the labour market. It is argued that the likely macroeconomic impacts of the Blair Government's 'New Deal' programme are being exaggerated, and that a more realistic appreciation of the limits and possibilities of such supply-side interventions is required.
Some suggestions for a reformed approach to welfare-to-work policyâbased on a client-centred and developmental ethos, an enlarged concept of 'employment' (embracing the social economy) and active social redistributionâare proposed.
Language: | Undetermined |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Year: | 2000 |
Pages: | 729-749 |
ISSN: | 14643545 and 0309166x |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1093/cje/24.6.729 |