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Beyond 'Employability.'

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  • Peck, Jamie
  • Theodore, Nikolas

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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 policy--based on a client-centred and developmental ethos, an enlarged concept of "employment" (embracing the social economy) and active social redistribution--are proposed. Copyright 2000 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Peck, Jamie & Theodore, Nikolas, 2000. "Beyond 'Employability.'," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 24(6), pages 729-749, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:24:y:2000:i:6:p:729-49
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    1. Prashant Mahajan & Suresh Golahit, 2017. "Are The Services Delivered Employable? A Scenario Of Technical Education In Rural India," Post-Print hal-01483640, HAL.
    2. Roda Madziva & Simon McGrath & Juliet Thondhlana, 2016. "Communicating Employability: the Role of Communicative Competence for Zimbabwean Highly Skilled Migrants in the UK," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 235-252, February.
    3. Daniel Perkins & Rosanna Scuttella, 2008. "Improving Employment Retention and Advancement of Low-Paid Workers," Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE), Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School, vol. 11(1), pages 97-114.
    4. Ballester, Ramon, 2005. "European Employment Strategy and Spanish Labour Market Policies," Working Papers of the Department of Economics, University of Girona 14, Department of Economics, University of Girona.

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