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John Macnicol

John Macnicol is Visiting Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He has researched extensively on old age, age discrimination and retirement. He recently published Neoliberalising Old Age (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

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Is the idea of a ‘lump of labour’ really a fallacy?

by John Macnicol March 3, 2017

by John Macnicol March 3, 2017

A major argument used by those who wish to extend working lives is that there is no such as a ‘lump of labour’: in other words, labour markets are not …

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John Macnicol

John Macnicol

Is the idea of a ‘lump of labour’ really a fallacy?