Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2007
Abstract:
This paper assesses the record on job quality during the early term of office of the New Labour government by interpreting, from a political economy perspective, changes in a variety of subjective measures of job quality taken from several different data sources. We find some improvements in job quality over the period 1998-2004; however we argue that these improvements have arisen not because of New Labour’s policies towards the workplace but because of low and falling rates of unemployment. Despite recent improvements, a large number of workers in Britain remain in low quality jobs and, without a radical change of policy direction, sustained and substantial progress in the quality of work will remain elusive.
Published in
Cambridge Journal of Economics
Volume
Volume: 31 (6):941-971
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/bem028
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Notes
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