scholarly journals COVID-19 and the UK labour market

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S215-S224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Mayhew ◽  
Paul Anand
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Job Retention ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Manpower Policy ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Successful Innovation

Abstract This article considers policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis as they affect the labour market, how these policies are evolving and some of the design issues they face. The concentration is on the UK, but other countries are also discussed for comparative purposes. The Job Retention Scheme is a successful innovation to keep temporarily stopped workers attached to their employers. However, since economic recovery will be slow, it is not sustainable in its current form. A sustained rise in unemployment is inevitable and alternative policies to mitigate this and the dangers of scarring are discussed. The structure of output will change, as therefore will the composition of jobs. A comprehensive active manpower policy will be needed to efficiently match job seekers to available jobs. The young are likely to suffer disproportionately from the recession and this makes it essential to introduce radical policies to boost work-based training and to enhance the contribution made by further and higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Auto plant closures, policy responses and labour market outcomes: a comparison of MG Rover in the UK and Mitsubishi in Australia

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Armstrong ◽  
David Bailey ◽  
Alex de Ruyter ◽  
Michelle Mahdon ◽  
Holli Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Plant Closures ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Uk

Employment strategies for Europe: lessons from Denmark and the Netherlands

1999 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 82-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Barrell ◽  
Veronique Genre
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Wage Moderation ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The New Deal

Labour market reform has become a central policy issue for many European countries, and there are lessons to learn for the further development of the New Deal in the UK. We discuss reforms in Denmark and the Netherlands, and look at their implication for employment and earnings. The Dutch started a sequence of reforms in the early 1980s based around wage moderation. Real wages per person hour rose less rapidly than elsewhere in Europe, and employment rose more strongly. Other reforms made the labour market more flexible, and many part-time jobs were created. The Dutch can claim to have succeeded in improving their labour market preformance. The Danes started serious reforms in the 1990s, and individuals on social benefits have a right and a duty to be activated. Registered unemployment has fallen sharply as a result of these New Deal style policies, but only some of these individuals have moved into employment. Increased flexibility, moderate real wage growth and active support for job-seekers all seem to help reduce unemployment and raise employment. Evidence from Denmark and the Netherlands suggests that making work relatively more rewarding helps to reduce inactivity and unemployment.

scholarly journals Measuring Social and Psychological Outcomes from Activation Labour Market Programmes in Higher Education: A Pilot Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Long Hogarty ◽  
Conor Mc Guckin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
National Study ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Labour Market Entry

Following the 2008 recession, Ireland experienced unemployment rates as high as 15% (McGuinness, O’Connell and Kelly, 2014). Policy responses have been through the introduction of upskilling and reskilling through activation labour market policies (ALMPs) in the higher education sector (Department of Education and Skills, 2015).  The evidence to date regarding the efficacy of such interventions (e.g., Springboard+) has been concerned with blunt measurements of progression rates, labour market entry, and earnings. The present study explored social capital and social well-being among a sample of 101 participants of Springboard+ programmes at one higher education provider in Dublin. The primary objective of the pilot study is to create and test a research method informed by well validated indicators to inform a larger national study.

Higher-Level Skills in the UK

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-169
Author(s):  
Helen Connor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Skill Supply ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The Uk

This article provides an overview of current trends in the supply of higher-level skills in the UK. The author suggests that at higher levels increasing the supply of qualified people is unlikely to be an adequate measure to gain international competitive advantage, and that greater attention needs to given to increasing the quality (in terms of better and more relevant skills) and to stimulating demand for graduates in the wider economy. It is, she argues, difficult to justify expansion of the higher education sector in the absence of evidence of an increased requirement on the part of employers to match any growth in supply. The articles that follow in this ‘Special Focus’ on skills needs discuss specific aspects of the labour market for higher-level skills. Gill Court considers the labour market for graduates in the USA and the lessons for other countries of moving to a mass higher education system; Helen Lawton Smith looks at national laboratories and the effects that recent political decisions have had on their role in skill supply and skill renewal; and finally Gill Court and Nick dagger assess data on the recruitment of non-national staff to research centres, highlighting the extent of the European mobility of scientists and engineers.

The graduate labour market in the UK

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Demand Growth ◽  
The Uk

This article maps the changing supply and demand for graduates in the 1990s. Demand growth is likely to continue into the 1990s, but the growth in the supply of graduates will come to a halt. It will not, however, go into decline as a result of the demographic downturn. 1992 will see an increase in international mobility adding to the complexity of the labour market in the 1990s. Graduates, higher education and employers will all have to adjust to this increasingly complex market in the 1990s if shortages and graduate underemployment are to be minimized.

What Do Comparisons Of The Last Two Economic Recoveries Tell Us About The UK Labour Market?

1996 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 80-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
First Year ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Price Inflation ◽  
Equivalent Point ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Uk

There are signs that the UK labour market has behaved differently in the most recent economic recovery. After the end of the recession in 1992 unemployment began to fall much earlier than expected, whilst wage and price inflation remained very low. Chart 1 plots unemployment and real wages in the first three years of the last two recoveries. In both cases unemployment rose in the first year of the recovery but thereafter the performance in the 1990s is much better. In the second year, unemployment began to fall significantly, much earlier than it had in the 1980s recovery. Three years after the low point in output the rate of unemployment was around 8½ per cent, 2½ per cent below the level pertaining at the equivalent point in the last cycle. At the same time real wages have shown little growth benefits compared with 4 per cent growth in the 1980s recovery.

Investing in Higher Education Abroad

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Des Monk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Tuition Fees ◽  
Education Abroad ◽  
Postgraduate Study ◽  
The Uk

This paper presents the results of an examination of the value of business postgraduate courses undertaken by Chinese students at UK universities: such courses cost many thousands of pounds in tuition fees alone. It seemed worthwhile to attempt to assess the benefits that might accrue to such students, especially in terms of their subsequent experience in the labour market. The results suggest that it is the non-financial rather than the financial rewards of postgraduate study that are considered important by Chinese students. Moreover, there is a mismatch between the expectations of these students and their subsequent experience in the Chinese labour market. This issue has become particularly important following the announcement by the present UK coalition government of its intention to reduce central funding subsidies to university teaching by 40% and to reduce the number of students who would be permitted to enter the country. As a result, UK universities are now in an increasingly competitive market for international students; for strategic purposes, it is important to understand the perceptions that such students have formed of the benefits that have accrued as a result of their time spent studying in the UK.

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