The Labour Market Under New Labour: The State of Working Britain 2003

ISBN-13: 9781403916297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 314 str.

Paul Gregg; Jonathan Wadsworth; Richard Dickens

Opis

Leading experts examine, for the first time, the impact of New Labour policies on the labour market over the past 5 years. Looking behind the 'good news' implied by the lowest headline unemployment rates since the 1970s and by a low and stable rate of inflation, it will examine the impact of policies such as the minimum wage, the New Deal, Working Family Tax Credit scheme, policies on lone parents, and changes in the education system. It also looks at the impact of growing income inequalities over this period, on the growing geographic concentrations of joblessness and on the new phenomenon of widespread total economic inactivity amongst certain social groups.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: WORK, UNEMPLOYMENT AND INACTIVITY The Impact of the New Deal for Young People on the Labour Market: A Four Year Assessment; R.Blundell, H.Reed, J.Van Reenen & A.Shephard Workless Households and the Recovery; P.Gregg & J.Wadsworth The Rise in Inactivity Among Adult Men; G.Faggio & S.Nickell & D.Hawkes McJobs and MacJobs: The Growing Polarisation of Jobs in the UK; M.Goos & A.Manning Labour Market Prospects of Less Skilled Workers Over the Recovery; P.Gregg & J.Wadsworth Welfare Reform and the Employment of Lone Parents; P.Gregg & S.Harkness The Labour Market Performance of Ethnic Minorities in the Recovery; J.Wadsworth PART II: HOURS, EFFORT AND REPRESENTATION AT WORK The Demands of Work; F.Green The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families' Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work, 1992-2002; S.Harkness Trade Unions; D.Metcalf PART III: WAGES Wage Inequality Since 1975; S.Machin Minimum Wage, Minimum Impact; R.Dickens & A.Manning Public and Private Sector Labour Markets; P.Dolton & S.McIntosh Gender and Labour Market Performance in the Recovery; H.Robinson PART IV: INCOMES, EDUCATION AND OPPORTUNITY Skills in the UK; S.McIntosh Access to Education; A.Goodman & L.McGranahan Higher Education, Family Income and Changes in Intergenerational Mobility; S.Machin Child Poverty in Britain; R.Dickens & D.T.Ellwood

O autorze

RICHARD BLUNDELL Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy RICHARD DISNEY Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK PETER DOLTON Professor at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Business School, UK DAVID T. ELLWOOD Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA GIULIA FAGGIO Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, UK ALISSA GOODMAN Programme Director of the Education, Employment and Evaluation Sector at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK MAARTEN GOOS Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, UK FRANCIS GREEN Professor of Economics at the University of Kent, UK SUSAN HARKNESS Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol, UK DENISE HAWKES Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UK STEPHEN MACHIN Professor of Economics at the University College London and Group Leader of the Centre for the Economics of Education at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, UK ALAN MANNING Director of the Labour Markets Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, and Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, UK LESLIE MCGRANAHAN Research Economist in the Education, Employment and Evaluation sector based at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London STEVEN MCINTOSH Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance DAVID METCALF Professor of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics and the Director of the Leverhulme Trust Programme on the Future of Trade Unions in Modern Britain at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, UK STEPHEN NICKELL Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and an External Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee HOWARD REED Director of the Work and Income Sector at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London HELEN ROBINSON Lecturer in Economics and Leverhulme Research Fellow at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK ANDREW SHEPHARD Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK JOHN VAN REENEN Director of the Innovation and Productivity Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics UK