Key findings

  • The decline in the performance of the region relative to the UK and London needs to be halted
  • Although it can provide flexibility for some workers, more needs to be done to address ‘atypical’ work
  • The pay squeeze means that living standards are stagnating in the region
  • Encouraging progression in a world where pay differentials are compressed at the bottom of the labour market
  • Tackling occupational polarisation for younger workers

Further reading

Unfair dismissal – Day One Frights
The Government should keep but reduce ‘qualifying periods’ for unfair dismissal protection
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Nye Cominetti
Calculating the Real Living Wage for London and the rest of the UK: 2025
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Nye Cominetti, Louise Murphy
Labour Market Outlook Q3 2025
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Greg Thwaites, Nye Cominetti, Hannah Slaughter
Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke