Unemployment in Britain / Stephen Nickell -- Has Britain solved the "regional problem"? / Richard Jackman and Savvas Savouri -- Economic inactivity / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Why have older men stopped working? / Richard Disney -- The rise of the workless household / Paul Gregg, Kristine Hansen, and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Working 9 to 5? / Susan Harkness -- Job tenure, 1975-98 / Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Training the workers / Francis Green -- Education, training, and the youth labour market / Peter Robinson -- Gender and the labour market / Tanvi Desai [et al.] ... -- Wage inequality in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s / Stephen Machin -- Wage mobility in Great Britain / Richard Dickens -- Low pay in Britain / Mark B. Stewart -- The cost of job loss / Paul Gregg, Genevieve Knight, and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Poverty in Britain / Simon Burgess and Carol Propper