The youth training scheme: regional policy in reverse?

In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 18, Heft Apr 90

Abstract

Draws out some of the regional consequences of the operation of the 'employer-led' Youth Training Scheme (YTS). 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. (Abstract amended)