New Labour at work: long-term unemployment and the geography of opportunity

Article Abstract:

New Labour has relied on active labo r market policies in their efforts to control unemployment and poverty. The effectiveness of welfare-to-work program s in light of continuous regional employment disparities in the UK is examined. It is argued that the government has neglected the demand-side of job availability and has focused instead on the wrong analysis of the causes of unemployment.

Unemployment, Evaluation

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Changing patterns of UK poverty, 1997-2004

Article Abstract:

It has been argued that the failure of the U.K. government to bring down the child poverty rates is due to the success of government policy in generating economic growth. This argument misses wider problems in the household income distribution and the data that suggests that those who remained poor are in worse conditions is an example of this.

Economic Programs, Administration of Economic Programs, Models, Economic aspects

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Job quality and the economics of New Labour: a critical appraisal using subjective survey data

Article Abstract:

The changes in different subjective measures of job quality from different data sources are analyzed to asses the record on job quality during the first years of the New Labour government. It is argued that the improvements in job quality from 1998-2004 was caused by low and falling rates of unemployment and not by New Labour's labor policies.

Quality of work life

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