To offset the impact of tax cuts on the public finances, the Government is considering how it might cut spending. One option that has been discussed is the possibility of …

Benefit (around £12 billion); o Contributory Employment and Support Allowance (ESA; £5 billion) and …

This briefing sets out the method through which the Living Wage Rates (a voluntary hourly pay rate that is based on what families need to get by) in London and …

Liz Truss’s first major act as Prime Minister was to set out a huge energy support package to reduce the scale of the living standards’ catastrophe this winter, with the …

All Firms 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Industry: Firm employment: A blank cheque | An analysis of the new cap …

The current cost of living crisis is set to dominate the new Prime Minister’s agenda not only this winter, but also in the following months and years. This paper sets …

in 2023-24 and 2024- 25. 19 ONS, Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK: …

Following a period of real-terms cuts to school spending per pupil in England, the government has set out plans to increase school funding per pupil at both the 2019 and …

This report uses newly available data on differences in wealth across groups to understand the complicated picture of wealth inequality in the UK, the impact it has on people’s lives …

of having a child); being working age and in employment; and having high-education levels personally … for income levels, age, household composition, employment status, education (and includes time period … ethnicity. 34 Ibid. 35 For example, the 16-64 employment rate for Black people in the UK in 2006-8 was …

This report examines how material living standards, most commonly measured by households’ incomes, have changed for different groups in the UK and the consequences that these changes have for income …

that the poorest suffered less from falls in employment incomes which affected many on middle and higher … income from employment for low-income families with children. However, the rise in employment income was … those in poorer health. Finally, they examine how employment, income (including income poverty) and financial … that the poorest suffered less from falls in employment incomes which affected many on middle and higher … distribution. Second, the measurement of self-employment incomes in the HBAI data is likely to be considerably …

The UK has great strengths, but is over a decade into a period of stagnation. The toxic combination of slow growth and high inequality was posing challenges for low-to-middle income …

underpinning social contracts. With rising wages, higher employment, the provision of public services or support … have been even weaker were it not for strong employment growth, with hours worked having increased by … sectors was equivalent to 7 per cent of total employment in in the decade to 2021, hugely down on the … of a renewed economic strategy The UK’s high employment rate is a strength we should not take for granted; … together. That could be via rising wages, higher employment, the provision of public services or in support …

This briefing note focuses on structural shifts of worker and employer power. The cost of living crisis and the return of strikes over pay and conditions have brought the issue …

firms and workers come together in a productive employment relationship, they can create a surplus: both … negotiate over how to share the surpluses from employment. And the minimum wage, which puts a floor on … Survey (WIRS) and its successor, the Workplace Employment Relation Survey (WERS), to shed light on whether … Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and Workplace Employment Relation Survey. At establishment level, an … Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and Workplace Employment Relation Survey. Thus, the decline in workplace …

This report warns that Britain has experienced a toxic combination of both low growth and persistently high income inequality, and this has led to some groups being particularly exposed to …

changes in average hours and changes in the employment rate have been much less significant drivers … low-income households recently has been the rise in employment (which, at the aggregate level, is driven by … by women). Between 2007-08 and 2019-20, the employment rate rose by 6 percentage points in the bottom … point is that this track record of record high employment makes it unlikely that households can repeat … terms of market income (despite relatively high employment rates) and disposable income. In this data, …