Into jobs or into the classroom? The UK new deal for young people
Into jobs or into the classroom? The UK new deal for young people
The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) is a major active labour market policy aimed at getting long-term unemployed young people in the UK into jobs. In this paper we use duration analysis to examine whether the policy has raised the probabilities of exit from unemployment to employment, to education/training, to other benefits and to other destinations, at different durations of unemployment. We find NDYP to have boosted exit rates to all destinations for participants, i.e. it does help some young people out of unemployment and into work. The (previously unidentified) primary effect of NDYP, however, has been to shift large numbers of young people out of unemployment and into education and training. It is not yet clear whether these young people are subsequently more ‘employable’ as a result of the intervention.
youth, labour market, education
Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland
McVicar, Duncan
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Podivinsky, Jan M.
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Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre
1 April 2003
McVicar, Duncan
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Podivinsky, Jan M.
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McVicar, Duncan and Podivinsky, Jan M.
,
Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre
(2003)
Into jobs or into the classroom? The UK new deal for young people
(Working Paper Series 80)
Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland
57pp.
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Abstract
The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) is a major active labour market policy aimed at getting long-term unemployed young people in the UK into jobs. In this paper we use duration analysis to examine whether the policy has raised the probabilities of exit from unemployment to employment, to education/training, to other benefits and to other destinations, at different durations of unemployment. We find NDYP to have boosted exit rates to all destinations for participants, i.e. it does help some young people out of unemployment and into work. The (previously unidentified) primary effect of NDYP, however, has been to shift large numbers of young people out of unemployment and into education and training. It is not yet clear whether these young people are subsequently more ‘employable’ as a result of the intervention.
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Published date: 1 April 2003
Keywords:
youth, labour market, education
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Duncan McVicar
Corporate Author: Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre
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