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Featured Publication - Women, work and wages in the UK

Women, work and wages in the UK

This report assembles some of the key trends on earnings and employment for women in order to assess how much progress has been made and to what extent women are becoming more or less disadvantaged. It considers some of the longstanding challenges fa…

  • Published: 31st Oct 2016
  • Authors: Adam Tinson, Hannah Aldridge
  • Category: Work and Pay
Featured Publication - Enlightened self-interest? The role of private sector employers in reducing poverty

Enlightened self-interest? The role of private sector employers in reducing poverty

There is increasing recognition that businesses across Scotland have a role to play in addressing poverty. Such a role is explicit in the Scottish Government’s Economic Strategy, and is also integral to the Fair Work agenda. But while there is a cle…

  • Published: 22nd Mar 2016
  • Authors: Ceri Hughes, Peter Kenway, Peter Kelly , Theo Barry Born
  • Category: Work and Pay
Featured Publication - The self-employed pension savings gap

The self-employed pension savings gap

This paper explores current pension contribution levels amongst the self-employed. It provides an overview of the number of self-employed people paying into a pension and how this varies over time, and across different groups of the population. We al…

  • Published: 9th Feb 2016
  • Authors: Ceri Hughes, Tom MacInnes
  • Category: Work and Pay
Featured Publication - Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland 2014

Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland 2014

The latest data on poverty in Northern Ireland, focusing on the links between poverty, work, disability and age. Northern Ireland’s labour market and poverty rates have deteriorated in the last five years, in addition to longstanding issues of menta…

  • Published: 27th Mar 2014
  • Authors: Adam Tinson, Hannah Aldridge, Tom MacInnes
  • Category: Income and Poverty
Featured Publication - Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Scotland 2010

Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion in Scotland 2010

This report is the 2010 edition of indicators of poverty and social exclusion in Scotland. It includes a broad review of relevant Scottish policy, using the framework of Achieving our Potential, the key Scottish policy document on poverty. Although S…

  • Published: 22nd Sep 2010
  • Authors: Anushree Parekh, Peter Kenway, Tom MacInnes
  • Category: Income and Poverty
Featured Publication - Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2009

Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2009

The recession is at the heart of this latest report monitoring poverty and social exclusion in the UK (published by the Rowntree Foundation in December 2009) for the simple reason that a recession inevitably means lower employment which in turn means…

  • Published: 3rd Dec 2009
  • Authors: Tom MacInnes, Peter Kenway, Anushree Parekh
  • Category: Income and Poverty
Featured Publication - Disabled People, Poverty, and the Labour Market

Disabled People, Poverty, and the Labour Market

Thirty per cent of disabled adults of working age (aged 25 to retirement) are living in poverty – around one and a half million people. This poverty rate is around double that for non-disabled adults and, unlike that for children and pensioners, rath…

  • Published: 19th Oct 2006
  • Author: Guy Palmer
  • Category: Work and Pay
Featured Publication - Raising Awareness of the European Employment Strategy in the UK

Raising Awareness of the European Employment Strategy in the UK

This is the final report for the project 'Raising Awareness of the European Employment Strategy' in the UK. The main purpose of the report is to make suggestions that may help future efforts to raise awareness of the EES.  Our principal conclusion i…

  • Published: 2nd May 2005
  • Author: Peter Kenway
  • Category: Work and Pay
Featured Publication - Reflections on the European Employment Strategy: How relevant to the UK?

Reflections on the European Employment Strategy: How relevant to the UK?

This collection of essays offers a critical examination of various aspects of the European Employment Strategy (EES). It arises out of a seminar organised by the New Policy Institute as part of the project titled ‘More and Better Jobs’ – a project wh…

  • Published: 1st Nov 2004
  • Authors: Guy Palmer, Suriya Edwards
  • Category: Work and Pay

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