Professor Paul Gregg speaks at two influential workshops on unemployment
Professor Paul Gregg from the Department of Social & Policy Sciences has made presentations on the subject of youth unemployment at two important workshops attended by those in a position to influence policy.
Professor Gregg, who is the Director of the Centre for Analysis and Social Policy at Bath, was invited to speak at a employment seminar hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and IZA in Paris on Thursday and Friday and then at a Monetary Policy Roundtable Research Meeting held by the Bank of England on Wednesday.
At the first workshop Professor Gregg gave a presentation discussing the merits and results of the UK’s use of job guarantee scheme for young people, which give unemployed people work experience with companies funded by the Government. This was under the banners of the New Deal for Young People and the Future Jobs Fund.
The workshop was attended by an international audience, with many delegates from across Europe and offered an excellent opportunity to influence international policy makers ahead of an EU funded initiative to support a Youth Guarantee in areas of high youth unemployment.
The Bank of England workshop discussed what is happening in the British labour market, the evidence that real wages are falling, the role of unemployment in driving this fall and why this recession is difference to others.
Professor Gregg has carried out extensive research in areas of youth unemployment, workless households and child poverty.
He spoke on the issue of youth unemployment at the launch conference of the University’s Institute for Policy Research, which was formed earlier this year as a new voice for inter-disciplinary research addressing national and international policy challenges.
