The changing face of public sector employment 1999–2009
SUMMARYThis article presents an analysis of public sector employment (PSE) and makes comparisons with the private sector, using data from the Labour Force Survey and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. It looks at the nature of employment in the public sector before discussing the characteristics that differentiate people employed in both the public and private sector, comparing proportions of public and private sector workers in different groups: by sex, age, ethnicity, disability, working pattern, education, occupation and earnings. This article serves as an update to the 2007 Economic and Labour Market Review (ELMR) article ‘Characteristics of public sector workers’ (Machin and Millard 2007).
THE LABOUR MARKET IN SCOTLAND
The consequences of the economic and financial crises of 2008 and 2009 continue to have major, detrimental impacts on the economies of the world. After a series of World Economic Outlooks in which its economic forecasts range from ‘mild recession’ to ‘subdued growth’, the IMF’s outlook for October 2012 reported that the economic recovery had suffered further setbacks (IMF, 2012).
Rethinking Sexuality Foucault and Classical Antiquity
In this collection of essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his "History of Sexuality", on the study of classics. Foucault's work presents a theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times. These essays should help the reader to explore Foucault's model of Greek culture and see how well his interpretation accounts for the full range of evidence from Greece and Rome.