Table of Contents

Introduction Ray Barrell; 1. A comparative analysis of the UK labour market Bob Anderton and Ken Mayhew; 2. Did the Thatcher reforms change British labour market performance? David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman; 3. Is the UK rise in inequality different? Paul Gregg and Stephen MacHin; 4. Transformation of British industrial relations? Institutions, conduct and outcomes: 1980–90 David Metcalf; 5. Low pay and minimum wage protection in Britain and the EC Mary Gregory and Véronique Sandoval; 6. Direct and indirect effects of active labour market policies in OECD countries David Grubb; 7. Structural differences in European labour markets Ray Barrell, Nigel Pain and Garry Young; 8. The UK labour market: micro rigidities and macro obstructions Patrick Minford and Jonathan Riley.

Promotional Information

In this book, first published in 1994, the functioning of the labour market is addressed by an international group of economists.

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Reviews

' … by far the best collection of investigations yet into the impact of the 1980s reforms … ' Will Hutton, The Guardian