Labour Market Trends published by the Office of National Statistics www.ons.gov.uk contains lots of data about differences in workers by gender, by ethnic group, by occupation, and by region. Richard Disney examines ‘The decline of unions in Britain’ in Economic Review, November 1994. Peter Dolton investigates government training schemes for tackling youth unemployment in ‘Old problem, New Deal’, in Economic Review, September 1998. See also Margaret Stevens ‘Human Capital Theory and UK Vocational Training Policy,’ Oxford Review of Economic Policy 1999

For more on discrimination in product, credit and labour markets, see Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1998