Employment in the Lean Years Policy and Prospects for the Next Decade [Hardcover]

Over the last fifteen years, the deregulation of Britain's labor market has led to economic growth, employment opportunities, and a more diverse workforce: the fat years . However, now as Britain faces its lean years with job cuts, rising unemployment, income insecurity, and related social strains, how can and should the government and key labor market policy makers ensure the labor market provides job opportunities and reasonable levels of social justice?

The fundamental changes that have occurred in labor market institutions mean that 'solutions' of previous decades no longer work. This volume sets out to address the major challenges faced:

- Unemployment, immigration, housing and job subsidies
- Key institutional changes, such as the decline of collective regulation and the rise of occupational licensing
- Pay inequality and minimum wages
- Pay and subsidies in the private and public sector

Contributions from leading experts in the field employ the latest theory and empirical research to examine a different set of problems and the policies that could help to resolve them.

0. Preface,Richard Layard
1. Introduction,David Marsden
Part I: Employment, Immigration, and Housing
2. The European Unemployment Challenge,Stephen Nickell
3. Immigration and the UK Labour Market,Jonathan Wadsworth
4. Migration and its Impact on Housing Costs,Christine M.E. Whitehead
5. Job Guarantees for the Unemployed: Evidence and Design,Paul Gregg
Part II: New Institutional Patterns in Labour Markets
6. Individualization and Growing Diversity of Employment Relationships,William Brown and David Marsden
7. How Does Government Regulate Occupations in the UK and US? Issues and Policy Implications,Amy Humphris, Morris M. Kleiner, and Maria Koumenta
8. Occupational Licensing in the UK: the Case of the Private Security IndustrylC{