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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
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.
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163-198
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
McVicar, Duncan
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Podivinsky, Jan M.
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Nicaise, Ides
McVicar, Duncan
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Podivinsky, Jan M.
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Nicaise, Ides

McVicar, Duncan and Podivinsky, Jan M. (2005) Into jobs or into the classroom? the UK new deal for young people. In, Nicaise, Ides (ed.) Best Practice in the Evaluation of Labour Market Programmes for Vulnerable Groups. (Working Paper Series, 80, Chapter 7) Leuven, Belgium. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, pp. 163-198.

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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: February 2005
Additional Information: Research carried out for the European Commission (Employment and Social affairs DG) and co-financed by the Flemish Government

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Local EPrints ID: 64428
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/64428
PURE UUID: 0f041303-7f8a-440c-8b98-421d7b4eeae7
ORCID for Jan M. Podivinsky: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4921-1189

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Date deposited: 16 Mar 2009
Last modified: 09 Mar 2024 02:33

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Author: Duncan McVicar
Editor: Ides Nicaise

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