Lingering in the margins of Labour's conference on Sunday has been a simple question with a complicated answer: is the promise of further devolution to Scotland conditional on England getting the same?
As every pager-bearing backbencher knows, media relations are not an obscure function carried out on some distant margin of a Labour minister's empire.
Because of the way in which constituency boundaries are set for the 650 House of Commons seats, the Conservatives need to win by a margin over Labour of about seven percentage points just to eke out a majority.
Unless Labour MPs act decisively, the leadership debate will be confined to the narrow margins of New Labour.
We are not good at measuring change at the margins of the labour market, especially as new business models emerge.
There has been anecdotal evidence of abuse by certain employers – including in the public sector – of some vulnerable workers at the margins of the labour market.
@shakyanepal Make our tax and benefit systems fairer: By closing the gender, wage and employment gap; by making sure that children from low-income households get more access to better quality education; by making sure that we don't abandon groups at the margins of the labour market, we can make our systems fairer.
This example highlights yet again one of the limitations of existing activation strategies once the client group is expanded beyond the range of UI benefit recipients to embrace other recipients of inactive benefits who have much more heterogeneous needs and who are often at the margins of the labour force.
Prison inmates and LTU are psychologically vulnerable populations at the margins of the labour market.
Given the dearth of literature on attitudes towards work and psychological well-being among people at the margins of the labour market, we decided to look at the psycho-socio-economic characteristics of a group of LTU registered for one year at an employment agency (rather than a random group of the unemployed).
The second specification thus covers both external and internal margins of adjustment of labour supply to windfall gains.
