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The Evolution of Special Employment Measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Paul Gregg
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The high unemployment of the last 15 years has brought with it a proliferation of special employment measures (SEMs). These measures all involve intervention in the labour market with varied aims and means but with a common theme namely the reduction of the claimant count of unemployment. Initially introduced as a short-term response to what was hoped to be a transient problem, the use of SEMs has now become permanent. The gradual movement from transience to permanence has coloured much of the development of these schemes and understanding it gives a clearer insight into the objectives and underlying theoretical perspective of SEMs. For although SEMs may appear as a continuum there have been a number of changes of direction in their development.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 132 , May 1990 , pp. 49 - 58
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Copyright © 1990 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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