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Labour Law, Social Security and Economic Inequality

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  • Deakin, Simon
  • Wilkinson, Frank

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The neoliberal policy of deregulation has failed to bring about significant improvements in the efficiency of the labor market in Britain. Cuts in social protection and legal constraints upon collective bargaining have contributed to growing inequalities in income and security of employment, without leading to greater flexibility of labor supply. Casualized employment does not present a viable route back to full-time work for the unemployed. With the failure of deregulation it is likely to shift to alternative means of reconciling the goals of justice and efficiency, such as minimum income and employment rights programs. Copyright 1991 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Deakin, Simon & Wilkinson, Frank, 1991. "Labour Law, Social Security and Economic Inequality," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 15(2), pages 125-148, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:15:y:1991:i:2:p:125-48
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    1. Simon Deakin, 2014. "Labour Law and Inclusive Development," Working Papers wp458, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
    2. Dr Ronald W. McQuaid, 1996. "Lifelong Learning And Local Economic Development," Working Paper p22, Departement of Economics, Napier University.
    3. Sangheon Lee & Deirdre McCann & Nina Torm, 2008. "The World Bank's “Employing Workers” index: Findings and critiques – A review of recent evidence," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 147(4), pages 416-432, December.
    4. F. Wilkinson, 2001. "The Theory and Practice of Wage Subsidisation: Some Historical Reflections," Working Papers wp201, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
    5. David Ladipo, 1995. "Industrial Change and Social Mobility: Black Men in New York City and London, 1970-1990," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_142, Levy Economics Institute.
    6. Korkut Alp Erturk, 2019. "Class Agency Under Conditions of Self-Enforcement: Marx on Capitalists' Common's Problem," Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, University of Utah 2019_01, University of Utah, Department of Economics.
    7. Simon Deakin & Hannah Reed, 1999. "Transcending the Flexibility Debate? Deregulation and Employment in Britain 1979-1997," Working Papers wp132, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.

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