The Labour Market Under New Labour; The State

Leading experts examine, for the first time, the impact of New Labour policies on the labor market over the past five 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 examines 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.

Richard Dickens is Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

Paul Gregg is Reader in Economics, University of Bristol and member of the Council of Economic Advisors at H.M. Treasury.

Jonathan Wadsworth is Lecturer in Economics, Royal Holloway.

List of figures

vii

List of tables

ix

Acknowledgements

xiii

Abbreviations and acronyms

xiv

Notes on contributors

xvi

Introduction

1

(16)

Part I Work, Unemployment and Inactivity

The impact of the New Deal for Young People on the labour market: a four-year assessment

17

(15)

Richard Blundell

Howard Reed

John Van Reenen

Andrew Shephard

Workless households and the recovery

32

(8)

Paul Gregg

Jonathan Wadsworth

The rise in inactivity among adult men

40

(13)

Giulia Faggio

Stephen Nickell

Why has employment recently risen among older workers in Britain?

53

(17)

Richard Disney

Denise Hawkes

McJobs and MacJobs: the growing polarisation of jobs in the UK

70

(16)

Maarten Goos

Alan Manning

Labour market prospects of less skilled workers over the recovery

86

(12)

Paul Gregg

Jonathan Wadsworth

Welfare reform and the employment of lone parents

98

(18)

Paul Gregg

Susan Harkness

The labour market performance of ethnic minorities in the recovery

116

(21)

Jonathan Wadsworth

Part II Hours, Effort and Representation at Work

The demands of work

137

(13)

Francis Green

The household division of labour: changes in families' allocation of paid and unpaid work, 1992-2002

150

(20)

Susan Harkness

Trade unions

170

(21)

David Metcalf

Part III Wages

Wage inequality since 1975

191

(10)

Stephen Machin

Minimum wage, minimum impact

201

(13)

Richard Dickens

Alan Manning

Public and private sector labour markets

214

(18)

Peter Dolton

Steven McIntosh

Gender and labour market performance in the recovery

232

(16)

Helen Robinson

Skills in the UK

248

(17)

Steven McIntosh

Part IV Incomes, Education and Opportunity

Access to education

265

(15)

Alissa Goodman

Leslie McGranahan

Higher education, family income and changes in intergenerational mobility

280

(11)

Stephen Machin

Child poverty in Britain

291

(15)

Richard Dickens

David T. Ellwood

Index

306

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The Labour Market Under New Labour; The State of Working Britain

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