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Edited by David Card, Richard Blundell, and Richard B. Freeman

Seeking a Premier Economy

The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000

520 pages, 137 line drawings, 112 tables  6 x 9  © 2004
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Comparative Labor Markets Series

Cloth $95.00

ISBN: 9780226092843   Published May 2004

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ISBN: 9780226092904

Acknowledgments
Introduction
What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?
Seeking a Premier-League Economy: The Role of Privatization
Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: U.K. Evidence
Characteristics of Foreign-Owned Firms in British Manufacturing
The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain
Pension Reform and Economic Performance in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s
Labor Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States
Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work?
Mobility and Joblessness
Has "In-Work" Benefit Reform Helped the Labor Market?
Active Labor Market Policies and the British New Deal for the Young Unemployed in Context
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
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