'Employability'plays a crucial role in informing labour market policy in the UK, the EU and
beyond. The concept of employability has been deployed to describe the objectives of the …

This book examines the political economy of workfare, the umbrella term for welfare-to-work
initiatives that have been steadily gaining ground since candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 …

The return of widespread unemployment in the OECD in the 1970s is often attributed to
processes of restructuring in the world economy. The technological revolution of recent …

Abstract E therington D. and J ones M. City-regions: new geographies of uneven
development and inequality, Regional Studies. Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning …

The employability of students is an essential factor that every school must consider. This
study aims to test the validity and reliability of the employability scale construct, determine …

BACKGROUND: Active labour market policies (ALMP) are used in advanced welfare states
to support transitions to work for people who are unemployed or underemployed, including …

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 …

This paper focuses upon the privatization of Britain's employment services. It explores the
extent to which the private sector is involved in the delivery of state-funded employment …

This series, published in association with the Review of International Political Economy,
provides a forum for current debates in international political economy. The series aims to …

The British Employment Service increasingly relies on private providers. Arguably, the
Employment Zone initiative provides a radical example of contracting out. Since 2000, long …