... the adoption of family‐friendly human resources management policies. Finds that even in this particular context both the employment strategy and some institutional pressures play an important role. The size of the firm, the percentage of female employees, the presence of a high‐commitment work system...

... consideration is given to the appropriateness of the subject area of the conversion programme. Education Policy Graduates Training Northern Ireland The UK’s graduate labour market has been changing rapidly, with higher education provision expanding substantially over the course of the last...

...Dan Finn Britain’s New Labour Government has radically shifted its policy aims away from securing traditional full employment towards the improvement of “employability”. This paper briefly assesses what is meant by employability and how the Government has integrated its “supply side” approach...

...Neil Fraser The article assembles efficiency and equity arguments for and against targeting the long‐term unemployed in active labour market policies (ALMP), and refers to evidence from applications to date. The theory and practices of ALMP differ somewhat between low and high unemployment...

...Gordon Lafer For the past 20 years, job training has been promoted as the US Federal Government’s primary labour market policy for improving the employment opportunities of low‐income Americans. This essay provides new findings from the US labour market and from training programme evaluations...

...Stefan C. Wolter; Bernhard A. Weber The sudden slump in the labour market of the 1990s made it necessary for Switzerland to alter its labour market policy, which from being almost exclusively passive became an active policy. Indeed a lack of suitable qualifications can be considered as one...

... in terms of their potential effect on policy development and implementation, highlighting the role organisational culture plays in this field. Critical Incident Technique (CIT) is the oldest job analysis technique, devised by Flanagan (1954) to analyse failure in military flying training during...

...Nick Manning Social policy, labour markets and industrial relations are closely linked, both empirically and conceptually, as described in the first part of the paper using examples drawn from the USA and Europe. The same issues are then explored in more detail for the Russian case. The latter half...

...Carol Agócs; Catherine Burr Affirmative action in the USA, and employment equity in Canada, are policy frameworks that have developed through the use of legislation, regulation and decisions by courts and administrative tribunals, as mechanisms for addressing discrimination in employment. Managing...

..., be counterproductive. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Employment Japan Job rotation Multi‐skilling Policy Re‐training Skills flexibility Socio‐governmental factors USA A high level of job rotation is a distinctive feature of the Japanese employment system. It is a condition that supports...

...Anders Björklund Outlines the current state of evaluation research in Sweden. Concludes that it is limited in scope relative to the USA despite the much larger expenditure on labour market policies in Sweden. Locates this deficiency in the differential research infrastructure of the two countries...

... Economy Education International trade Policy Skills flexibility Training Vocational training The market for training has always and everywhere exhibited a substantial institutional structure, both formal and informal. The formal structures vary massively between otherwise similar countries...

... with the revised data series is not so robust as it was found to be in previous studies[ 1 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Employment France Gender Minimum wage Policy Young people Initially, the objective of this note was simply to bring up to date previous results – presented...

... external constraints. Suggests that the remit for TECs may have been too broad but acknowledges progress being made. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Government Policy Training Training and Enterprise Councils Unemployment United Kingdom UK Training Policy and the Role of TECs David Hodgson...

...Judith Marquand Gives some definitions of training and training policy, before discussing how policy is made and its relationship to context, including stakeholders and the range of policy instruments. Suggests that the role of theory is to structure policy makers′ views of context and options...

... Entrepreneurship Small firms Policy 8 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER 11,6 T he number of small firms is on the increase, but the overwhelming evidence is that these firms appear to create jobs only for their owners. Small Firms Policy and its Regional Implications in Britain John Stanworth and Celia...

...John Mangan Governments in a number of countries have introduced policies to increase the labour force participation of persons with disabilities. Many of these policies have displayed a legislative or compulsory element as in the case of workforce quotas. In 1981 the Australian Government...