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

The Big Brexit
An assessment of the scale of change to come from Brexit
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Swati Dhingra, Emily Fry, Sophie Hale, Ningyuan Jia
Not working
Exploring changing trends in youth worklessness in the UK, from the 1990s to the Covid-19 pandemic
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Louise Murphy
Right Where You Left Me?
Analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on local economies in the UK
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Mike Brewer, Jack Leslie, Lalitha Try
Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke