6. Who says that social norms are now more tolerant of greater inequality and this may be leading to increasing inequality of rewards?
Bennett
Krugman
Ryan
7. What percentage of 16-21 year olds were earning less than the living wage in 2012?
71%
17%
38%
43%
8. When was Job Seekers' Allowance introduced?
1998
1995
1996
1997
9. Who said (1906): 'wages should be sufficiently high to enable the labourer to live in a manner consistent with the dignity of a human being'?
Krugman
Ryan
Bennett
10. Who distinguishes between standard cheap labour and non-standard cheap labour?
King and Rueda
Almond and Verba
Reay and Lucey
11. Who found that 6.1 million working households were in poverty in the UK in 2012?
Aldridge
Ryan
Pennycook
Whittaker
12. Which of the following is not a rationale behind welfare to work policies in the UK?
end culture of laziness
moral agenda (perhaps)
tackles social exclusion
better for the economy
end child poverty
13. What is National Minimum Wage (Oct 15)?
6.70
6.50
5.70
5.90
14. What was the name of Major's programme which involved 13 weeks of intensive job search and 13 weeks of mandatory work experience?
Project Work
Job Seeking Task
15. Who says that welfare reform in the UK is seen as less important in itself than as one component of a coordinated policy response to social and economic change'?
Walker and Wiseman
Pennycook and Whittaker
16. When was the Flexible New Deal introduced?
1998
1997
2009
2008
17. How much money was earmarked for the New Deal for Young People in 1998?
2620 million
2620 thousand
18. When did Working Families Tax Credit become Child Tax Credit?
2003
2002
2001
2004
19. What is the living wage outside of London?
8.45
8.75
9.25
9.85
20. Who found that 1 in 5 workers were earning below the living wage nationally in 2012?
