International Journal of Manpower: Volume 12 Issue 4

Training Credits

Michael Howard

Job training is needed for early school‐leavers toredress the inequality they suffer compared withthose who continue in full‐time education. For thispurpose Training Credits have…

Taxation and the Female Labour Supply in Japan

Tomoko Furugori

The Japanese economy, facing a severe labourshortage, may need to seek a fuller utilisation ofwomen. Circumstantial evidence about the labourshortage is described, and Japanese…

Labour Status of the General US Population and a High IQ Population

Karen Leppel

The labourforce status of members of AmericanMensa (a high IQ group) is examined. Comparedwith a general US sample, the Mensans′ labour‐forceparticipation rate was found to be…

Skill Shortages in Britain and Germany

Peter E. Hart, Alan Shipman

British firms attach more weight to “hands on”experience than to formal qualifications. Theymanage to cope with lower proportions of skilledlabour than those required by…

PRACTITIONERS′ CORNER : Tailoring Education and Training to Labour Market Requirements

John Cooper

Education and training structures in Britain andFrance have been inadequate to meet the changinglabour market demands placed on them in recentyears. In France, relatively early…

Training Policy and Employment Generation

David Hodgson

This article aims to review UK policy to industrialtraining over the post‐war period and itsrelationships with employment generation isreviewed. The focus is on evaluating…