Disconnecting Labour? The Labour Process in the UK Fast Fashion Value Chain

Flexible Labour? The Growth of Student Employment in the UK

The transition from school to work in the UK has undergone dramatic change since the 1970s and the labour market that young people are entering is now signiŽ cantly different to that faced by previous generations. While securing employment has always proven difŽ cult for unqualiŽ ed youth, they are particularly disadvantaged in today’s labour market. In place of full-time employment, young peop...

Immigrant Assimilation Pre and Post Labour Market Entry: Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey

We estimate models of employment an earnings for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2004. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market (labour market entrants) are distinguished from those who arrived to complete their education (education entrants). Diverse patterns of labour market assimilation are found depending on ethnic...

The Effects Of Afghan Immigrants On The Iranian Labour Market

New Labour and the Labour Market

The recent run of good macro-economic news masks mounting evidence that worklessness is increasingly concentrated on selected individuals, households, socio-economic groups and geographical areas . Simply focussing on the aggregate unemployment rate bypasses many of these issues. Likewise, concentration on average wages and wage growth obscures the highest level of wage inequality ever statisti...

Determinants of wages and labour supply in the UK

We explore characteristics of the UK labour market with special emphasis on explanation of the existing wage inequalities, determinants of participation and variation in the magnitude of hours of labour supplied among individuals. We explain up to 92 percent of variance in the wage rates from the supply side. Accuracy of the model is accounted by a variety of factors relevant to the labour mark...