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

Enforce for good
Effectively enforcing labour market rights in the 2020s and beyond
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Lindsay Judge, Hannah Slaughter
Low Pay Britain 2023
Improving low-paid work through higher minimum standards
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Nye Cominetti, Charlie McCurdy, Greg Thwaites, Rui Costa
Labour Market Outlook Q1 2023
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Hannah Slaughter
Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke