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- Intro
- 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
- Figure?2 Claims accepted by Employment Tribunals
- Figure?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
- Figure?10 Share of self-employed workers in total employment and self-employed hours in total hours
- Figure?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
- 3 A historical perspective on UK labour market regulation
- The 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
- Employment Regulation in Detail
- 6 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
- Conclusion
- 10 Regulating labour supply: unions, migration and apprenticeships
- Trade unions and the economy
- Immigration controls
- The Apprenticeship Levy
- Conclusions
- 11 Protecting jobs?
- Economic rationale
- Employment protection in the UK and elsewhere
- Some possible effects of EPL
- Evidence
- Alternatives to standard employment
- Conclusions
- PART 4
- Conclusions
- 12 What now?
- Barriers to deregulation
- Modest measures of deregulation
- A more radical approach
- References
- About the IEA
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