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Skills for sustainable employment: strategies to tackle youth unemployment

This report explores the challenges facing young people in the contemporary UK labour market. It has a particular f... Show more
This report explores the challenges facing young people in the contemporary UK labour market. It has a particular focus on young unemployed people and the policies and initiatives to help them find work. A further concern relates not only to the quantity of jobs available to young people, but also the quality. This is important because poor-quality jobs can often act as 'poverty traps' pushing young people into cycles of employment and unemployment rather than acting as 'stepping stones' into decent work.
The report starts by looking at the UK in broader context then outlines changing UK government policy in this area with a particular focus on recent changes. Three separate chapters look at the main actors: trade unions, employers and young people themselves. Finally, the report considers two particular areas of policy initiative that might be used to boost the quantity and quality of jobs available to young people: (1) the inclusion of 'social clauses' in procurement contracts, for example requiring contractors to provide good-quality Apprenticeships as part of public sector procurement processes; and (2) promoting entrepreneurship among young people, that is helping young people to set up in self-employment as a way of avoiding unemployment, and whether there is scope to roll out this kind of policy more widely.
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Authors: Simms, Melanie; Hopkins, Ben; Gamwell, Sophie

Date: 2013

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Series name: unionlearn research paper

Subjects: Youth; Employment; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more
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Present tense, future imperfect?: young people's pathways into work

The landscape of work is changing rapidly and young people need information about these changes to enable them to n... Show more
The landscape of work is changing rapidly and young people need information about these changes to enable them to navigate this complexity. The transition from education to work presents young people with an important and complex set of decisions. How long should they remain in education? What kind of work interests them and how will they discover the available options in terms of finding out about work? Is a university education a sensible route for all those who can make the grade? What about job-related training - how will it help and who will provide it? This report presents preliminary findings from a major research project that sheds light on these changes. Our evidence is derived mainly from discussions with employers and interviews with young people, focussing in and around the West and East Midlands.
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Authors: Purcell, Kate; Elias, Peter; Green, Anne; Mizen, Phillip ... [+] Show more

Date: 2017

Geographic subjects: England; Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Subjects: Youth; Pathways; Employment ... [+] Show more
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Unions and job quality in the UK: extending interest representation within regulation institutions

This article presents a counterpoint to a structuralist view of job quality and argues that it can be understood as... Show more
This article presents a counterpoint to a structuralist view of job quality and argues that it can be understood as an outcome of contested power dynamics of interest representation within institutions of labor market regulation. The article presents studies of unions in two sectors in the UK (health care and industrial cleaning) where bad jobs are common. It examines how unions have sought to regulate job quality through representing new interests within existing institutions and by extending institutional regulation to new groups. The evidence highlights the contested nature of these decisions and the importance of collective actors in exercising agency in seeking to improve job quality. The evidence shows how new interests can be promoted within institutions to (seek to) improve job quality, despite internal resistance.
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Authors: Simms, Melanie

Date: 2017

Geographic subjects: Great Britain; Europe

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Work and occupations

Subjects: Employment; Quality; Governance ... [+] Show more

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Skills for sustainable employment: strategies to tackle youth unemployment

Present tense, future imperfect?: young people's pathways into work

Unions and job quality in the UK: extending interest representation within regulation institutions