Skills, qualifications and unemployment

Economic Affairs

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 25-30

  Robinson, Peter ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0003241217     PISSN: 02650665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1996.tb00521.x     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. S. Nickell and B. Bell, 'The collapse in demand for the unskilled and unemployment across the OECD', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 11, No. 1, 1995.
2. This improvement occurred primarily as older, less-qualified people left the working-age population and were replaced by significantly better qualified young people.
3. This recession saw a much more modest decline in the share of manufacturing in total employment (see Table 1), in part because so many manufacturing jobs had already been lost in the early 1980s.
4. S. Dench, Employers' Manpower and Skills Practices Survey, London: Department of Employment, 1993.
5. Public Attitude Survey for the Employment Department, Skill Needs of Small Firms in Britain, 1995.
6. See P. Robinson, The Decline of the Swedish Model and the Limits to Active Labour Market Policy, Centre for Economic Performance, Discussion Paper 259, August 1995.
7. See, for example, J. Riccio, Welfare to Work: What Works? Lessons from California, Manpower Demonstration Research/Policy Studies Institute, October 1995.