| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 309 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
The labour market in winter : the 2008-2009 recession / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Unemployment and inactivity / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth -- The labour market for young people / Antoine Goujard, Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen -- The baby-boomers at 50 : employment prospects for older workers / Richard Disney, Anita Ratcliffe and Sarah Smith -- Workless households / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Immigration in the UK / Stephen Nickell and Jumana Saleheen -- Job tenure and job turnover / Giulia Faggio, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Job quality in Britain under the Labour government / Francis Green -- Worker well-being in booms and busts / Andrew E. Clark -- Family-friendly policies / Jane Waldfogel -- Changes in the UK wage inequality over the last forty years / Stephen Machin -- Gender and the labour market / Joanna K. Swaffield -- Recent developments in intergenerational mobility / Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan -- Have reforms to the school system improved educational outcomes? / Sandra McNally -- Ethnicity and second generation immigrants / Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Fratttini and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos -- Child poverty in Britain : did work work? / Richard Dickens -- Trade unions / Alex Bryson and John Forth -- Public and private sector labour markets / Peter Dolton and Gerry Makepeace -- The regional labour market in the UK / Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene and Jonathan Wadsworth |
| Summary |
This text provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market and policy in the UK, with focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the ensuing recession, and its aftermath. It contains assessments of the effects of many policies introduced over the last 10 years in employment, education and welfare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Unemployment -- Great Britain
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Labor supply -- Great Britain
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Social aspects
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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Economic history
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Labor supply
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Social aspects
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Unemployment
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 1997-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003606
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gregg, Paul.
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Wadsworth, Jonathan, Dr.
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| ISBN |
9780191623509 |
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0191623504 |
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