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sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring …
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There are large variations in economic performance across UK cities and on some measures, they have widened since the global financial crisis. All main parties promise action to reduce them, but there is little difference between them in terms of the policies that they would pursue to meet this...
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Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
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This paper analyses the continued decline of trade unions in Britain and examines the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. Membership of trade unions declined precipitously in the 1980s and 1990s. The rate of decline has slowed in the most recent decade, but we...
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This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...
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higher wages are associated with higher job satisfaction and higher job anxiety. However, we observe a positive association … between higher wages and non-pecuniary job satisfaction, which disappears with the inclusion of our effort measures. Thus high … effort levels provide high levels of non-pecuniary job satisfaction and higher wages, in contrast to what compensating wage …
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and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages …
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than median wages. We distinguish between "net decoupling" - the difference in growth of GDP per hour deflated by the GDP … hour deflated by the GDP deflator and median wages deflated by a measure of consumer price inflation. We would expect that …) the wedge between compensation (which includes employer-provided benefits like pensions and health insurance) and wages …
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much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …
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finds that decoupling has been overstated and cannot be used to justify redressing the balance between wages and profits … education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. …
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