The Youth Training Scheme

Regional Policy in Reverse

Bibliographic Data

ID6327668
AuthorsJ Peck (0000-0002-1425-9705, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume18
Issue2
Pages135-143
Publication date1990-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557390782454530
OpenAlexW1994735220
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This article draws out some of the regional consequences of the operation of the ‘employer-led’ Youth Training Scheme (YTS). The scheme, although nationally uniform by design, is found to produce different effects in different places, due to the nature of its articulation with the labour market. In depressed local labour markets, the predominant function of YTS is identified as the containment of youth unemployment, while in buoyant local labour markets its job substitution function is most prominent. Consequently, regional economic inequalities stand only to be exacerbated by the operation of the scheme

Articulation (sociology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Function (biology · Geography · Inequality · Labour economics · Political science · Scheme (mathematics · Training (meteorology · Unemployment · Youth unemployment · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Law · Regional Development and Policy · Rural development and sustainability

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