The Labour Market Under New Labour

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Richard Dickens, Paul Gregg, Jonathan Wadsworth

      Pages 1-13

3. Work, Unemployment and Inactivity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Impact of the New Deal for Young People on the Labour Market: A Four-Year Assessment

      • Richard Blundell, Howard Reed, John Van Reenen, Andrew Shephard

      Pages 17-31

   3. Workless Households and the Recovery

      • Paul Gregg, Jonathan Wadsworth

      Pages 32-39

   4. The Rise in Inactivity Among Adult Men

      • Giulia Faggio, Stephen Nickell

      Pages 40-52

   5. Why Has Employment Recently Risen Among Older Workers in Britain?

      • Richard Disney, Denise Hawkes

      Pages 53-69

   6. McJobs and MacJobs: The Growing Polarisation of Jobs in the UK

      • Maarten Goos, Alan Manning

      Pages 70-85

   7. Labour Market Prospects of Less Skilled Workers Over the Recovery

      • Paul Gregg, Jonathan Wadsworth

      Pages 86-97

   8. Welfare Reform and the Employment of Lone Parents

      • Paul Gregg, Susan Harkness

      Pages 98-115

   9. The Labour Market Performance of Ethnic Minorities in the Recovery

      • Jonathan Wadsworth

      Pages 116-133

4. Hours, Effort and Representation at Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. The Demands of Work

      • Francis Green

      Pages 137-149

   3. The Household Division of Labour: Changes in Families’ Allocation of Paid and Unpaid Work, 1992–2002

      • Susan Harkness

      Pages 150-169

   4. Trade Unions

      • David Metcalf

      Pages 170-187

5. Wages

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Wage Inequality Since 1975

      • Stephen Machin

      Pages 191-200

   3. Minimum Wage, Minimum Impact

      • Richard Dickens, Alan Manning

      Pages 201-213

   4. Public and Private Sector Labour Markets

      • Peter Dolton, Steven McIntosh

      Pages 214-231

   5. Gender and Labour Market Performance in the Recovery

      • Helen Robinson

      Pages 232-247

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.

• employment
• Inflation
• labor market
• labour market
• mobility
• poverty
• unemployment
• unions

• Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics and Queen Mary, University of London, UK

  Richard Dickens

• Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

  Paul Gregg

• Centre for Economic Performance, the London School of Economics and Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK

  Jonathan Wadsworth

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