The state of working Britain
By: edited by Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
Contributors: Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Unemployment -- Great Britain; Labor supply -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Unemployment in Britain / Stephen Nickell; title: Has Britain solved the "regional problem"? / Richard Jackman and Savvas Savouri; title: Economic inactivity / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth; title: Why have older men stopped working? / Richard Disney; title: The rise of the workless household / Paul Gregg, Kristine Hansen, and Jonathan Wadsworth; title: Working 9 to 5? / Susan Harkness; title: Job tenure, 1975-98 / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth; title: Training the workers / Francis Green; title: Education, training, and the youth labour market / Peter Robinson; title: gender and the labour market / Tanvi Desai, [et al.]...; title: Wage inequality in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s / Stephen Machin; title: Wage mobility in Great Britain / Richrd Dickens; title: Low pay in Britain / Mark B. Stewart; title: the cost of job loss / Paul Gregg, Genevieve Knight, and Jonathan Wadsworth; title: Poverty in Britain / Simon Burgess and Carol Propper