The Labour Market in Winter -
The State of Working Britain

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
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Employment and Unemployment

1. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth: The Labour Market in Winter - the 2008-2009 Recession
   
   
2. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth: Unemployment and Inactivity
   
   
3. Antoine Goujard, Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen: The Labour Market for Young People
   
   
4. Richard Disney, Anita Ratcliffe and Sarah Smith: The Baby-Boomers at 50: Employment Prospects for Older Workers
   
   
5. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth: Workless Households
   
   
6. Stephen Nickell and Jumana Saleheen: Immigration in the UK
   
   
7. Paul Gregg, Giulia Faggio and Jonathan Wadsworth: Job Tenure and Job Turnover
   
   

Job Quality

8. Francis Green: Job Quality in Britain under the Labour Government
   
   
9. Andrew E. Clark: Worker Well-Being in Booms and Busts
   
   
10. Jane Waldfogel: Family Friendly Policies

Inequality

11. Stephen Machin: Changes in UK Wage Inequality over the Last Forty Years
    
    
12. Joanna K. Swaffield: Gender and the Labour Market
    
    
13. Jo Blanden and Lindsey Macmillan: Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
    
    
14. Sandra McNally: Have Reforms to the School System Improved Educational Outcomes?
    
    
15. Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos: Ethnicity and Second Generation Immigrants
    
    
16. Richard Dickens: Child Poverty in Britain. Did Work Work?
    
    
17. Alex Bryson and John Forth: Trade Unions
    
    
18. Peter Dolton and Gerry Makepeace: Public and Private Sector Labour Markets
    
    
19. Peter Dolton, Chiara Rosazza-Bondibene and Jonathan Wadsworth: The Regional Labour Market in the UK