Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility: The United KingdomReviews the arguments and evidence on labour flexibility and examines the special measures adopted to check the growth of unemployment until supply-side measures could take effect. The book considers several alternative strategies designed to combine labour flexibility and income security. |
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The demise of full employment | 1 |
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Regional unemployment rates 197985 | 14 |
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average Budget cent changes claimed Community Programme decline demand Department of Employment earnings economic effect employed employers Employment Gazette employment protection encourage estimated expansion expected expenditure female figures full-time equivalent full-time jobs Government groups growing growth high unemployment incomes policy increase industrial industrialised inflation insecurity investment job-splitting labour costs labour flexibility labour force labour market flexibility labour process labour supply level of unemployment London long-term unemployed long-term unemployment lower manpower policies manufacturing ment million monetarism monetarist MSC's national insurance contributions natural rate Northern Ireland OECD official older workers part-time employment part-time jobs part-time workers ployment proportion proposal real wages reflation regional relative rise school-leavers sector self-employment shift skills social security Special Measures strategy subsidy supplementary benefits survey tax cuts temporary total employment trend unem unemployment rate unions United Kingdom Wages Councils West Midlands women Youth Training Scheme youth unemployment