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Targeting Jobs to Local People: the British Urban Policy Experience

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  • Graham Haughton

    (Department of Urban Planning, Leeds Polytechnic, Brunswick Building, Leeds LS2 8BU, UK)

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The paper compares the effectiveness of a number of employment-generating schemes in terms of the proportion of jobs created going to locally resident unemployed workers. Whilst the paper establishes that considerable leakages do occur, a wide range of experience is identified which may in part be due to the differing methodologies used by the policy analysts concerned. This is due to the often inadequate attention paid to the study of local labour market institutions and dynamics. Some categories of workers continue to be systematically discriminated against, and policies which are currently being developed may help some of these workers overcome obstacles but without identifying and dismantling labour market barriers.

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  • Graham Haughton, 1990. "Targeting Jobs to Local People: the British Urban Policy Experience," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 27(2), pages 185-198, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:27:y:1990:i:2:p:185-198
    DOI: 10.1080/00420989020080161
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    1. Graham Haughton & Jamie Peck, 1988. "Skills audits — a framework for local economic development," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 3(1), pages 11-19, May.
    2. Graham Haughton & Jamie Peck & Alan Steward, 1987. "Local jobs and local houses for local workers: A critical analysis of spatial employment targeting," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 2(3), pages 201-207, November.
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