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Successive governments in the UK have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity.
It is re-engineering the United Kingdom as a plutocrats' paradise, in which the rich are scarcely troubled by laws or taxes, while the poor are plunged into a brutal world of casual labour, insecurity and legal restraint.
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Slavish "pro-business" politics are what gave us the crash of 2008, rampant labour market insecurity, years of falling living standards and runaway inequality.
But the rate of our unemployment benefits did seem to have Australia scoring only in the middle on the measure of labour market insecurity.
It found that youth and "the unskilled not only tend to have the worst performance in terms of employment but they also have lower earnings and considerably higher labour market insecurity and higher job strain".
The combination of the increase in the proportion of single parent families, welfare restructuring, and the increased labour market insecurity thus contributed to the increased child poverty rate.
Similar results are found in panel B when the gender-specific labour market insecurity measure of the origin MSR is included in the analysis; in panel C when the gender-specific unemployment rate in the origin MSR is included; and in panel D when individual labour market status, household disposable income and female couple member's share of household disposable income are reported.
Large informal sectors tend to result in severe labour market insecurities.
As we tumble further into recession and insecurity, Labour's legacy is that the people who are ashamed of the growing inequality of their incomes are not the wealthy, but those left trailing in their wake.
Poor families in urban areas depending on seasonal labour experience food insecurity in winter months when there are less working opportunities and the limited incomes/savings of the family incomes have to compete with expenditure on heating.
Also, since benefits and labour laws both reduce insecurity, but labour laws are especially bad for efficiency, governments might try to ease regulation while increasing benefits.The authors' numbers suggest this would be politically feasible, especially in Italy and Spain; and, given the terms of the feasible trade-off, this bargain would be economically advantageous as well.
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