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

Precarious prospects
Understanding precarious work among foreign-born workers
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Hannah Slaughter, Imogen Stone
Minimum wage, maximum pressure?
The impact of 2025’s minimum wage and employer NICs increases
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Nye Cominetti, Greg Thwaites
Unstable Pay
New estimates of earnings volatility in the UK
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Mike Brewer, Nye Cominetti, Stephen P. Jenkins
Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke