Presents the results of a research project aimed at examining the changes in the characteristics of a sample of the unemployed in a local area, over a two‐year period during which the unemployment rate fell by 40 per cent. The databases used were two large‐scale surveys of registered...

An analysis of the characteristics of a sample of the unemployed in the local area of Stoke‐on‐Trent, UK, is compared with information on the skills and characteristics which would be demanded resultant from an expansion of the local economy in both public and private activity. Much evidence...