Unemployment, public policy and the changing labour market

Introduction to the papers / Michael White -- Flexibility or polarisation? / Eithne McLaughlin -- Is there an underclass? The lessons from America / John Macnicol -- Recent developments in the macroeconomics of the UK labour market / Paul Warren -- Justifying ð̀orkfare': the historical context of the debate / Alan Deacon -- The benefit fault line / Alan Marsh -- Trends in job loss and recruitment in Britain, 1979-1991 / Joan Payne and Clive Payne -- Part-time work and employment regulation : Britain and France in the context of Europe / Jacqueline O'Reilly -- Implications of the changing spatial incidence of the long-term unemployed for the planning of programme provision and training / Chris Hasluck and Anne Green -- Unemployment in Northern Ireland : causes, characterisiticsand cures / David Armstrong -- Employment in the UK defence industry : structural change or market adjustment? / Derek Braddon, Paul Dowdall and Adrian Kendry -- Job search effort and motivation in unemployment / Michael White, ... [et al.] -- The employment commitment of unemployed people / Duncan Gallie, ... [et al.] -- Countering the labour market disadvantage of disability / Mary Dalgleish -- Just a load of Dosser? Homeless people and employment / Hilary Metcalf