Training and Labour Markets

Seminar Content

Directly or indirectly, most regeneration activity involves labour market issues. This seminar gives participants an introduction to the main tools to help understand labour markets, an overview of issues in labour market policy, and considers the competitiveness and skills agenda: each of these themes is explored through lectures and exercises. In the second half, current issues are explored through workshops: recent examples include addressing the needs of older workers and the place of enterprise policy in creating jobs.

Tutor

Trevor Hart

Seminar Learning Objectives

1. To become familiar with the main trends and issues in the UK labour market in the last 25 years.
2. To develop a critical understanding of the structure and logic of labour market policy.
3. To develop an awareness of key sources of labour market information and of the strengths and weaknesses of the main secondary data.
4. To develop a capacity to recognise and consider the labour market issues affecting regeneration and to develop responses to these issues.

Seminar Learning Outcomes

1. State the main trends and issues in the UK labour market in the last 25 years.
2. Explain the 'cycle of decline'.
3. Discuss and analyse the structure and logic of labour market policy.
4. Identify key sources of labour market information and state the strengths and weaknesses of these.
5. Apply labour market factors to regeneration practice and develop policy responses.