TY - JOUR AB - This paper introduces the active labour market policies or job search policies in the UK known as the New Deal, a major part of the Labour Government's package of welfare‐to‐work policies. Topics covered include estimates of their overall impact on employment; their limited effectiveness with disadvantaged job‐seekers, including increasing numbers of inactive, but not formally unemployed, people; and debates about these policies in relation to skill needs and areas of job decline. VL - 25 IS - 5 SN - 0143-7720 DO - 10.1108/01437720410554115 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/01437720410554115 AU - Fraser Neil PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - Introduction: Britain's new deals T2 - International Journal of Manpower PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 387 EP - 391 Y2 - 2024/04/24 ER -