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This book provides an overview and analysis of the major recent developments in the UK labour market and the impact of the New Labour government's policy developments. Individual chapters are as follows: The impact of the New Deal for Young People on the labour market: a four-year assessment / Richard Blundell ... [et al.]; Workless households and the recovery / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth; The rise of inactivity among adult men / Guilia Faggio and Stephen Nickell; Why has unemployment recently risen among older workers in Britain? / Richard Disney and Denise Hawkes; McJobs and MacJobs: the growing polarisation of jobs in the UK / Maarten Goos and Alan Manning; Labour market prospects of less skilled workers over the recovery / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth; Welfare reform and the employment of lone parents / Paul Gregg and Susan Harkness; The labour market performance of ethnic minorities in the recovery / Jonathan Wadsworth; The demands of work / Francis Green; The household division of labour: changes in families' allocation of paid and unpaid work, 1992-2002 / Susan Harkness; Trade unions / David Metcalf; Wage inequality since 1975 / Stephen Machin; Minimum wage, minimum impact / Richard Dickens and Alan Manning; Public and private sector labour markets / Peter Dolton and Steven McIntosh; Gender and labour market performance in the recovery / Helen Robinson; Skills in the UK / Steven McIntosh (indexed at TD/TNC 76.508); Access to education / Alissa Goodman and Leslie McGranahan; Higher education, family income and changes in intergenerational mobility / Stephen Machin; Child poverty in Britain / Richard Dickens and David T Ellwood.