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Article: Active labour market policies: introduction.
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- National Institute Economic Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Over the past decade active labour market policy has been an integral part of the Labour Government's strategy for achieving employment opportunity for all, encompassing Welfare-to-Work programmes such as the various New Deals for the unemployed and the more recently introduced Pathways to Work for people with a disability. Two of the hallmarks of policy development have been the increasing importance of the concept of 'mutual obligation' or individuals' 'rights and responsibilities' in the delivery and design of active labour market policy and the extension of the target group for these measures, traditionally the unemployed, to include also the economically inactive.
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