HC Deb 06 April 1982 vol 21 c282W
Mr. John Grant

asked the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his reply on 4 March to the hon. Member for Islington, Central, Official Report, column 224, if he will publish the updated analysis of research paper No. 10, concerning relative earnings and youth unemployment; and if he will give details of the other evidence to which he referred in his reply on the basis of the statistical relationship said to occur.

Mr. Alison

In general, the conclusions reached in the updated analysis of research paper No. 10 are not significantly different from those in the original paper and it is not proposed to republish the report. However, the updated results do suggest that extending the period under examination from 1976 to 1979 reveals some relationship between relative pay and youth unemployment.

The other evidence to which I referred in my reply of 4 March concerned the relationship between the relative earnings of young people and youth employment. This evidence is drawn from both international and domestic sources. International evidence is summarised in a recent paper published by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (No. CPE(WPI)81)6: MAS(WP5(81)8), and British evidence is taken both from work carried out by the Centre for Labour Economics and from the evaluation of special employment measures.