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100			_aFelstead, Alan
245			_aAre Britain's workplace skills becoming more unequal
260			_c2000
300			_ap.709-27
362			_aNov
520			_aIt has been argued that workplace skills are becoming more polarised in Britain. This tendency is sometimes considered to be a factor contributing to the process of social exclusion and growing wage inequality. Skill polarisation has therefore been the focus of renewed academic and - since the election of the Labour government - political interest. In some respects, previous survey evidence for the 1980s can be used to support the skill polarisation thesis. This paper investigates whether the process has continued into the 1990s among those in work. Our main finding is that there has been no overriding process of skill polarisation between 1992 and 1997. However, the picture is complex, with losers as well as winners. Among the winners are full-timers, employees and those employed by `modern' organisations. The losers, on the other hand, include those in part-time work, the self-employed and those employed in organisations with less progressive management practices. - Reproduced
650			_aTraining - Great Britain
650			_aVocational education - Great Britain
650			_aVocational training - Great Britain
650			_aVocational training
700			_aGreen, Francis
700			_aAshton, David
773			_aCambridge Journal of Economics
909			_a46970
999			_c46970 _d46970