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Getting a job, and then getting on at work, is the essential means through which households can improve their circumstances. Our research looks at how the changing labour market is affecting the nature of work, with a focus on the growth of self-employment and the rise in insecure forms of work. We look for solutions that enhance economic security without damaging the performance of the jobs market. As part of our work on the labour market, we publish a quarterly Labour Market Outlook and look at labour market enforcement.

Contacts

Hannah Slaughter

Senior Economist
T: 0203 372 2903
E: hannah.slaughter@resolutionfoundation.org

Nye Cominetti

Principal Economist
T: 0203 372 2963
E: nye.cominetti@resolutionfoundation.org
Events

Making the ‘New Deal’ a good deal for low-paid workers

How should the Government deliver its planned changes to employment law?

Register to attend in person or to receive an access link. The Government has come into office promising major workplace reforms that could amount to the biggest shake-up of the…
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Publications

Job done?

Assessing the labour market since 2010 and the challenges for the next government

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The record on the labour market since 2010 is mixed – strong employment growth (albeit a partial reversal post-pandemic), alongside a 14-year real wage stagnation. On their plans for the…
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Events

Is Britain working?

The labour market context to the general election

Since 2010, Britain’s labour market has gone through a period of boom and bust – with record jobs growth in the last decade followed by a struggle to return to…
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Comment

The labour market is generating fewer jobs, but paying better for those who have one

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Today’s labour market data paint a picture of a labour market that is generating fewer jobs, but paying better for those who do have one. This picture is hazy, however,…
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Publications

Firm foundations

Understanding why employers use flexible contracts

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At the end of 2023, more than one-in-eight (13 per cent) employees in UK were working on some form of flexible contract that can be viewed as ‘precarious’, accounting for…
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Comment

The jobs market recovery stalls

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Today’s labour market data from the ONS suggest that both labour demand and labour supply are heading South. The only silver lining is that, for those that do have a…
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Events

Precarious profits?

Why firms use insecure contracts, and what would change their minds

Over one-in-ten workers across Britain is employed on some form of precarious contract. The problems with such working arrangements for some workers are well known: they have limited control over…
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Publications

Labour Market Outlook Q2 2024

Happy 25th birthday to the minimum wage

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This year’s minimum wage uprating is large: roughly 1.6 million workers stand to benefit directly on 1 April when the adult rate rises to £11.44 – giving a cash increase…
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