Table of Contents:
  • Unemployment in Britain / Stephen Nickell
  • Has Britain solved the "regional problem"? / Richard Jackman and Savvas Savouri
  • Economic inactivity / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
  • Why have older men stopped working? / Richard Disney
  • The rise of the workless household / Paul Gregg, Kristine Hansen, and Jonathan Wadsworth
  • Working 9 to 5? / Susan Harkness
  • Job tenure, 1975-98 / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
  • Training the workers / Francis Green
  • Education, training, and the youth labour market / Peter Robinson
  • Gender and the labour market / Tanvi Desai, [et al.]...
  • Wage inequality in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s / Stephen Machin
  • Wage mobility in Great Britain / Richrd Dickens
  • Low pay in Britain / Mark B. Stewart
  • The cost of job loss / Paul Gregg, Genevieve Knight, and Jonathan Wadsworth
  • Poverty in Britain / Simon Burgess and Carol Propper.