In this report, we propose a roadmap towards shorter working time in Scotland.
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Jobs & skills
IPPR Scotland
Fair work can provide people with a decent standard of living, a sense of purpose and a means of contributing to society. But for too many people in Scotland, work fails to deliver decent living standards or the security on which to build a good life.
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Scotland
IPPR Scotland
In this paper we trace the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of this century.
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Equality
Future Welfare State
IPPR
The announcement on Tuesday that the Government will be lifting the public sector pay cap will be both welcome, and hugely disappointing for millions of public sector workers.
In 2011/12, the...
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Jobs & skills
While the Scottish labour market has improved in some ways in recent years, we continue to suffer from lower rates of in-work progression and productivity than the UK as a whole, and pay rates also...
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New Skills at Work
Scotland
IPPR Scotland
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Jobs & skills
Weak earnings growth over the last five years has made the Scottish economy smaller, and tax receipts lower, than was expected. Using IPPR Scotland's tax–benefit model, this paper assesses the scale...
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Scotland
IPPR Scotland
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Jobs & skills
As the number of maternal breadwinners continues to rise across Europe, this report compares the demographics of this phenomenon both across the continent and in Britain and Germany specifically,...
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Families
Today the chancellor garnered a great deal of attention for a bold move on the living wage, as part of his plan to turn the UK into a ‘low tax, high wage, and low welfare’ economy. But beyond this...
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Budget
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Across Europe, most migrant groups have lower employment rates, and a greater tendency to be overqualified for their jobs, than non-migrants. This report considers how European economies could...
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Jobs & skills
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A new report presents the argument for rolling out models of 'shared capitalism' that give all workers a claim on the collectively created successes of their workplace. The UK has one of...
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Jobs & skills