This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better...

Since the early 1970s, many studies have examined employers' recruitment practices and how they vary — over time, with the unemployment level and between labour markets, occupations and types of employer. Two recent articles in Personnel Review make a detailed account of the previous work...

The article describes some evaluation findings from a longitudinal study of young people receiving business start-up assistance, through the Prince's Trust (with financial support from the Government). Unusually for evaluations of self-employment schemes, it focuses not solely on issues of...