Publications Low Pay Britain 2025 Where next for the Government’s employment reforms? 3 July 2025 by Nye Cominetti and Charlie McCurdy This year’s Low Pay Britain report – the 15th in an annual series taking stock of low-paid work in the UK –takes on three important questions as the ERB heads… Continue Reading
Publications The power of place The role of place in driving regional pay inequalities 23 June 2025 by Richmond Egyei and Emily Fry and Tasos Kitsos and Dalila Ribaudo and Greg Thwaites and Enrico Vanino Tracking English early-career workers using the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset, we show one-third of regional wage gaps arise from place, not people. Identical full-time workers earn about £1,300 (5 per… Continue Reading
Comment Tracking Pay Lessons from the ‘video’ revolution 30 April 2025 by Mike Brewer and Tom Clark and Nye Cominetti and Stephen P. Jenkins This article was originally published on VoxEU. Around the world, no social buzzword is bigger than “security”. Political scientists use the concept to try and make sense of elections, while… Continue Reading
Publications Precarious prospects Understanding precarious work among foreign-born workers 14 April 2025 by Hannah Slaughter and Imogen Stone This briefing note examines the experiences of precarious work among foreign-born workers, how poor enforcement of rules can drag down standards for UK-born workers too, and what policy can do… Continue Reading
Events The challenges for Britain’s migrant workforce Understanding precarious work among foreign-born workers, and implications for wider labour market policy. Monday 14 April 2025 What are the labour market experiences of foreign-born workers? How do systemic issues allow poor practices to persist? What are the wider implications for the UK labour market? And how… Continue Reading
Publications Unstable Pay New estimates of earnings volatility in the UK 4 March 2025 by Mike Brewer and Nye Cominetti and Stephen P. Jenkins This report uses a newly available dataset – payroll data held by HM Revenue and Customs on over 250,000 working-age people covering April 2014 to March 2019 – to look… Continue Reading
Comment Chilly jobs, warm wages 21 January 2025 by Greg Thwaites The jobs market ended 2024 with good news on pay. That’s if you have a job – and there was worrying evidence that it’s getting harder to find one. We… Continue Reading
Publications Labour Market Outlook Q4 2024 30 December 2024 by Nye Cominetti and Hannah Slaughter In this Labour Market Outlook, we examine how the Government should approach extending Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) to the lowest earners, and in particular what replacement rate – the proportion… Continue Reading
