Research Catalog

Title

Policing the workshy : benefit controls, the labour market and the unemployed / Alex Bryson, John Jacobs.

Author

Bryson, Alex.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Avebury, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jacobs, John.
• Low Pay Unit.

Description

xii, 292 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Based on extensive interviews with claimants, staff in the Employment Service and the Department of Social Security, claimant advice agencies and many individual case examples, this book analyzes the effectiveness of the Social Security Act 1989 and the Employment Service.

Series Statement

The Avebury business school library

Uniform Title

Avebury business school library

Subject

• Great Britain. Employment Service Agency
• Unemployment insurance > Great Britain
• Social security beneficiaries > Employment > Great Britain
• Social security beneficiaries > Employment
• Unemployment insurance
• unemployment benefit
• eligibility
• unemployed
• long term unemployed
• public sector
• employment service
• job searching
• social security legislation
• survey
• regulation
• application
• guaranteed income
• contributions
• social security administration
• public servant
• attitude
• vocational information
• work incentive
• job seeker
• behaviour
• employment opportunity
• management attitude
• recruitment
• statistical table
• prestations de chômage
• conditions d'ouverture des droits
• chômeurs
• chômeur de longue durée
• secteur public
• service de l'emploi
• recherche d'emploi
• législation de sécurité sociale
• enquête
• réglementation
• revenu garanti
• cotisations
• administration de la sécurité sociale
• employé des services publics
• information professionnelle
• incitation au travail
• demandeur d'emploi
• comportement
• possibilités d'emploi
• attitude patronale
• recrutement
• tableau statistique
• prestaciones por desempleo
• elegibilidad
• desempleados
• desempleado por largo tiempo
• sector público
• servicio de empleo
• búsqueda de empleo
• legislación de seguridad social
• encuesta
• reglamento
• aplicación
• ingreso garantizado
• cotizaciones
• administración de la seguridad social
• empleado de servicio público
• actitud
• información profesional
• incentivo al trabajo
• solicitante de empleo
• comportamiento
• oportunidades de empleo
• actitud de la dirección
• contratación
• cuadros estadísticos
• Great Britain
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
• Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte

Genre/Form

• comment.
• illustration.
• reference.
• commentaire.
• référence bibliographique.
• comentario.
• ilustración.
• referencia.

Note

• "Low Pay Unit Research Trust"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The research : objectives, design and conduct -- Brokerage in the labour market : the role of the employment service -- Eligibility for income support and unemployment benefit after the Social Security Act 1989 -- The effects of the Social Security Act 1989 : the statistics -- Policies for the unemployed : the new framework -- The quality of decisions in the employment service -- The policies in action : how the regulations are applied in practice -- The search for work -- The search for workers -- Attitudes to taking work -- Employing the unemployed -- Regional variations -- The process of claiming benefits : conclusions and recommendations -- The effects of the labour market : conclusions and recommendations -- The claimants' charter -- Appendix 1. The interviews -- Appendix 2. Labour market synopses -- Appendix 3. Screening questionnaire -- Appendix 4. Questionnaire for group interviewees -- Appendix 5. Group interview topic guide.

ISBN

• 1856283577
• 9781856283571

LCCN

93118043

OCLC

• ocm26551066
• 26551066
• SCSB-1983063

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library