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Reforming the labour market: an assessment of the UK policies of the Thatcher era
- Abstract:
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Under Thatcher the United Kingdom introduced a major program of labour market deregulation, claimed to have made the United Kingdom one of the least regulated labour markets in the OECD. This paper reviews the measures implemented and assesses their impact. Trade union membership declined steeply, and collective bargaining was curtailed even more sharply. The impact of the legislation curbing unions can be exaggerated, given that it coincided with wider developments. At the microeconomic leve...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
- Journal:
- Australian Economic Review Journal website
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 329-344
- Publication date:
- 1998-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0004-9018
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- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:10337
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- Copyright holder:
- The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
- Copyright date:
- 1998
- Notes:
- © The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research 1998. Published by Blackwell Publishers Ltd. The full text of this article is not available in ORA. You may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link above.
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