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1 online resource |
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Table 1 Main areas of current UK labour market regulation; Table 2 Key EU employment directives; Table 3 Hours worked, selected countries 2014; Table 4 Full-time employees usually working more than 48 hours a week by occupation, Q4 2013; Table 5 Regulated occupations in the EU27*; Table 6 OECD Employment Protection Indicators, selected countries 2013; Table 7 Level and rate of people on zero-hours contracts, by industry October to December 2015; Table 8 Increased employment regulation since 2010; Figure 1 Demand, supply and 'equilibrium' in the labour market. |
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Figure 2 Claims accepted by Employment TribunalsFigure 3 The impact of a mandated benefit; Figure 4 The National Minimum Wage (£ per hour) over time; Figure 5 Adult National Minimum Wage Rate as percentage of median hourly earnings*; Figure 6 Adult minimum wage as % of median hourly earnings by region/nation (April 2015); Figure 7 UK gender pay gap for median gross hourly earnings (excluding overtime) April 1997 to 2016; Figure 8 Percentage of graduate programme recruits who are women, 2015; Figure 9 Long-term international migration, UK, 1970 to 2014. |
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Figure 10 Share of self-employed workers in total employment and self-employed hours in total hoursFigure 11 Number of firms by employment size in France; Box 1 The Living Wage Foundation; Box 2 Income and wealth inequality; Box 3 Tradable quotas; The author; Foreword; Summary; Tables, figures and boxes; PART 1; Ideas; 1 Introduction; The problem; Outline of this book; 2 How labour markets work, and why people want to regulate them; Demand, supply and labour market equilibrium; Contracts; 'Market failure'; 'Government failure'; Conclusion; PART 2; Employment Regulation: The Big Picture. |
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3 A historical perspective on UK labour market regulationThe Early Modern period; The nineteenth century; The early twentieth century; World War II and its aftermath; Newer forms of regulation; Conclusion; 4 Employment regulation in the UK today: extensive and costly; Tribunals; Costs of regulatory compliance; But who really bears the cost?; Conclusion; 5 The European Union dimension; The EU's reach; European law and the labour market; European political economy; But will repatriation of powers over the labour market make very much difference?; Conclusion; PART 3. |
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Employment Regulation in Detail6 Protecting workers, families and consumers?; Health and safety at work; Working time regulations; 'Family-friendly' policies; Employment of children; Occupational regulation; Conclusion; 7 Other people's pay (1); The National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage; Pensions auto-enrolment; Conclusions; 8 Other people's pay (2); High pay; The gender pay gap; Conclusions; 9 Discrimination in employment; Evidence of discrimination today; Economic analysis of discrimination; Policy principles; Policy in practice; The expanding category of discrimination. |
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Labor market -- Great Britain.
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Labor policy -- Great Britain.
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Labor economics -- Great Britain.
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Labor laws and legislation -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 1997-
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Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. |
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Economic history. |
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Economic policy. |
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Labor economics. |
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Labor laws and legislation. |
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Labor market. |
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Labor policy. |
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Great Britain. |
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Since 1997 |
| ISBN |
0255367449 (ebk) |
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9780255367448 |
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