British Journal of Industrial Relations

We investigate the impact of different types of training on the mobility expectations of workers, using three surveys. Most training episodes produce some transferable skills, and most transferable training is paid for by employers. Overall, training has no impact on mobility in three out of every f…

This article examines the attempt to revive apprenticeship training in Britain in the 1990s in the form of the Modern Apprenticeship. Drawing on historical and comparative examples, it puts this attempt into a broader context. The design of the Modern Apprenticeship is assessed and the operation in …

This paper examines whether there has been a transformation towards company-specific and unitarist industrial relations in Germany. On the basis of 25 case studies of employment practices in German and foreign-owned banks and chemical firms as well as industry data, the research found that the Germa…

This Comment questions the reasons why Marsden and Ryan (1990) have come to favour prescribing apprenticeship and occupational markets for reviving training in Britain. Their assessment failed to take account of (a) other advantages of internal labour markets over occupational markets, (b) instituti…

After passing through a period of relative crisis in the first half of the 1980s, by the end of the decade the ‘dual system’ appeared once again capable of providing Germany with the highly skilled work force it needed to meet the challenges of the twenty‐first century. This paper reviews the changi…

Public policy towards youth employment and training in Britain during the past decade has been dominated by two themes: the quest to reduce youth relative pay, as part of a wider deregulation of the labour market, in order to increase access to jobs and training: and the neglect of apprenticeship in…