Governments in the advanced industrial countries increasingly rely on supply-side reforms to intervene in the economy. This article examines one such reform, that of vocational education and training in France, whose successful implementation required that private actors cooperate not with the state…
This paper surveys the direction of change to employment regimes in the EU, in which fiscal consolidation constitutes the macro-economic foundations to labour markets in virtually every member-state. Attempting to address budget deficits has had important spillover effects, most notably on the condu…
Important and controversial changes have recently taken place in industrial training in the United Kingdom. Training is a complex policy area — industrial, economic, educational and social objectives may be pursued through it. For the most part it has been policy formation which has been dominated b…
