Higher wages, but insufficient earnings? The missing role of take-home pay in UK job quality

Stephens, Tom Stephens ORCID: 0000-0001-6190-8029 (2023) Higher wages, but insufficient earnings? The missing role of take-home pay in UK job quality. British Politics and Policy at LSE (25 Oct 2023). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The UK has had considerable success in improving gross hourly wages at the bottom of the distribution. However, Thomas Stephens shows that the sufficiency of workers’ overall net earnings – accounting for hours worked, and pay deductions – hasn’t improved in the same way as hourly wages over this same period. He argues for a focus on Earnings Sufficiency, and its key drivers, to improve UK job quality.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s)
Divisions:	School of Public Policy ?? SCPP ??
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2024 11:27
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 03:56
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122284

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