Exploring Economic Inactivity and NEETs: What Are Their Challenges?
Boosting workforce participation is a key economic challenge in the 2020s. The policy work should start in the Budget. It’s not about getting the over…
Resolution Foundation
Forget ‘unretiring’ the Covid cohort – mothers, older workers and people with disabilities hold the key to getting Britain working
Government efforts to boost Britain’s workforce should focus on supporting more mothers into work, and helping older workers and those with a disability stay in…
Care workers are paying for their dedication with unsafe working conditions and unlawful minimum wage under-payment
Social care workers have higher levels of job satisfaction and stronger job attachment than those in other low-paying sectors, but many have to contend with…
44 per cent disability income gap makes people with disabilities more likely to struggle to heat their homes and cut back on food this winter
Massive income and material deprivation gaps between people with disabilities and the rest of the population mean that disabled people are hugely exposed to the…
Britain’s ‘part-time work divide’ offers higher life satisfaction for many lower earners, but career constraints or lower living standards for other
People choose to work part-time for a number of reasons, many of them positive, but lower living standards, limited progression, and underemployment are key areas…
British workers are living through a two-decade wage stagnation costing £15,000, as Chancellor’s tax heavy consolidation adds to pressure on the ‘squeezed middle’ as well as the top
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has piled further pressure on ‘the squeezed middle’, with personal tax rises announced during the parliament set to deliver a permanent…
Hunt combines George Osborne rhetoric and Gordon Brown policy, announcing energy support today and tougher times tomorrow with top-heavy tax rises and backloaded spending cuts
The Chancellor has responded to a grim economic outlook with renewed energy support next year and a backloaded fiscal tightening, combining huge stealth tax rises…
Older generations will face the greatest income squeeze from surging energy costs this winter – but young people will struggle most to afford their bills
Older people will spend a higher share of their income on energy bills this winter than other age groups – with the over-75s expected to…
Technology has not been the swift ‘job destroying tsunami’ many predicted, and more of it will be needed to raise pay and productivity for everyone
Fears about robots taking people’s jobs are overplayed, as their negative impacts on some people’s pay and jobs have been offset by gains elsewhere, and…
One-in-five people say they’ve experienced workplace discrimination in the past year
One-in-five people say they have experienced some form of workplace discrimination in the past year – from being turned down for a job to being…