The UK Labour Market: Comparative Aspects and Institutional Developments

by Ray Barrell (Editor)

Overview

The behavior of the labor market is widely seen as the cause of the UK's poor macroeconomic performance over the past thirty years. The functioning of the labor market is addressed in this book by an international group of economists. They assemble micro- and macroeconomic evidence on the UK, the US, France and Germany, and discuss whether the UK labor market is different, and also if it has changed over time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521468251
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/10/1994
Series:	National Institute of Economic and Social Research Economic and Social Studies , #12
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.59(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

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

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