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Palgrave The Labour Market Under New Labour The State Of Working Britain 2003 2004 Edition by R. Dickens P. Gregg J. Wadsworth
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. Table of contents : 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