CITIZEN'S INCOME TRUST
The next seminar in the series on Flexible Labour Markets and Welfare
Reform
Flexibility, Competitiveness and Welfare Benefits
Will be held at the
London School of Economics
Rm.S75, St Clements House, Houghton St., LONDON WC2
On Thursday, 17 September 1998
10.15 am to 1.00 pm
(Coffee from 9.45: Sandwich lunch from 1.00)
Policies currently being implemented aim at a new combination of
economic efficiency and social justice, through increased labour market
participation. But will the "third way" on welfare that "promotes
opportunity instead of dependence" be consistent with improving
Britain's lagging productivity and competitiveness? Can investment in
education and training be adequately rewarded through jobs that are
mainly in routine social reproduction - the care of elderly people, the
service of household activities and the maintenance of the social
infrastructure? And can the new measures to improve incentives and
enforce responsibilities be introduced without unacceptable levels of
coercion and rising costs?
Speakers:
Ursula Huws, Analytica, Flexibility and Security in Europe
Ken Mayhew, Pembroke College, Oxford, Flexibility, Productivity and
Incentives
Dr Colin C. Williams, Leicester University, From Workfare to Fair Work
Notes about the speakers
Ursula Huws is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Employment
Studies and the Director of Analytica Social and Economic Research. She
has published widely on the restructuring of labour markets. Her
discussion paper, Flexibility and Security: towards a new European
balance was published by the Citizen's Income Trust as a discussion
paper in December 1997.
Ken Mayhew is a Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford and an
adviser to the Citizen's Income Trust. From October 1998 he will be
Director of a new ESRC research centre on skills, knowledge and
organisational performance. He is a specialist in labour market
economics. His publications include (with Gerald Holtham) Tackling
long-term unemployment, IPPR, 1996.
Colin Williams is a Lecturer in Geography, University of Leicester. He
has written extensively about the paid informal economy in Europe. His
publications include (with Jan Windebank) Informal Employment in the
Advanced Economies, Routledge, 1998.
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