A New Deal for the Young Unemployed -Sound Bite or Sound Policy?

A. Michel

Working Papers from University of Hertfordshire - Business Schoool

Abstract: When formulating their welfare reform policies, New Labour rejected greater redistribution of income and wealth in favour of greater distribution of jobs, education and training opportunities as the route to social justice. The emphasis on pursuing policies in the interests of social justice represents a continuum of the social democratic ideology of Old Labour. However, the centrality of market mechanisms to achieve this more 'individualised' notion of social justice draws heavily on the neo-liberal arguments of the New Right. For New Labour, this 'Third Way' welfare settlement is characterised by their flagship policy - the New Deal for the young unemployed. In this paper we have analysed the background to the New Deal and have examined the attitudes of some employers' in North and East Hertfordshire to the policy.

Keywords: SOCIAL REFORM; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUTH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 1999
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