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

Who cares?
The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector
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Nye Cominetti
New Year’s Outlook 2023
They think it’s all over… it isn’t now
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Torsten Bell
Train in Vain?
Skills, tasks, and training in the UK labour market
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Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Andrew Eyles, Kathleen Henehan, Sandra McNally
Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke