The government's submission to the Low Pay Commission argues for the main adult rate to hit £7 an hour by 2015 . This is a significant move for a number of reasons.
First - and most importantl...
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The fifth and final briefing paper in IPPR's Condition of Britain series explores work, welfare, and how the people of Britain are making ends meet. This paper explores the challenges for people...
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Working mothers are 'breadwinning' - earning as much as or more than their working partner or bringing in the sole household income - in record numbers. But who are these new breadwinners? How has...
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While it may seem uncontroversial to say that full employment should be one of the principal goals of UK economic policy in the 21st century, there is no firm consensus on what 'full employment'...
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IPPR's major report asks what role public policy should play in supporting progress on the living wage, the campaign for which has exemplified the power of bottom-up organisation. Eleven years after...
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Co-published by IPPR and the Resolution Foundation, this short report analyses the likely impact of introducing the living wage as a new wage floor for a range of FTSE-listed businesses across a...
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This report investigates the role of pay as reward or recognition for different kinds of work, skills and outcomes. Drawing on polling and extensive qualitative research, it considers how the...
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The share of poor households accounted for by working households has been increasing in the UK over the last decade, with more than half of poor children living in working households before the...
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This report, commissioned by the Low Pay Commission, examines variations in apprentice pay across the UK and the role of apprentice pay in young people's decisions to start and complete an apprentice...
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ippr's innovative research with 58 low-income families in London, Newcastle, Nottingham and Glasgow aimed to understand what the expansion of household debt has meant for the lives of low-income...
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