Synopses & Reviews
This collection of essays, from leading economic experts on the UK labour market, provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market, and the policy issues surrounding it, with a focus on the recent recession and its aftermath. The book contains assessments of the effects of many policies introduced over the last 10 years in employment, education, and welfare.
The result is the first serious comprehensive analysis of the economic downturn and the Labour government's record in the field of employment, spanning its time in office. An indispensable reference source on contemporary labour market developments in the UK, this book will be required reading, and of lasting use, to academics, students, practitioners, and policy makers.
About the Author
Paul Gregg recently completed a review of Personalised Support and Conditionality in the Welfare System for the UK Dept. of Work and Pensions. He is also a member of the London Child Poverty Commission and a programme director at the Centre for Market and Public Organisation. He was formerly a member of the Council of Economic Advisors at HM Treasury 1997-2006, where he worked on welfare reform and child poverty. His research has covered youth unemployment, workless households, child poverty, intergenerational mobility, and the drivers of social disadvantage.
Jonathan Wadsworth is a senior research fellow at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, deputy director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CREAM), and a research associate at IZA Bonn.
Table of Contents
Introduction Paul Gregg and Jonathan WadsworthEmployment and Unemployment
1. The Labour Market in Winter - the 2008-2009 Recession, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
2. Unemployment and Inactivity, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
3. The Labour Market for Young People, Antoine Goujard, Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen
4. The Baby-Boomers at 50: Employment Prospects for Older Workers, Richard Disney, Anita Ratcliffe and Sarah Smith
5. Workless Households, Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
6. Immigration in the UK, Stephen Nickell and Jumana Saleheen
7. Job Tenure and Job Turnover, Paul Gregg, Giulia Faggio and Jonathan Wadsworth
Job Quality
8. Job Quality in Britain under the Labour Government, Francis Green
9. Worker Well-Being in Booms and Busts, Andrew E. Clark
10. Family Friendly Policies, Jane Waldfogel
Inequality
11. Changes in UK Wage Inequality over the Last Forty Years, Stephen Machin
12. Gender and the Labour Market, Joanna K. Swaffield
13. Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility, Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan
14. Have Reforms to the School System Improved Educational Outcomes?, Sandra McNally
15. Ethnicity and Second Generation Immigrants, Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos
16. Child Poverty in Britain. Did Work Work?, Richard Dickens
17. Trade Unions, Alex Bryson and John Forth
18. Public and Private Sector Labour Markets, Peter Dolton and Gerry Makepeace
19. The Regional Labour Market in the UK, Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene and Jonathan Wadsworth