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Stressed out?

Len Shackleton

26 June 2009

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This week, researcher Bernard Casey of Warwick University created media interest with a presentation pointing out that days lost at work as a result of stress now exceed the days lost because of...

Defending pay inequality

J. R. Shackleton

26 May 2009

6 comments

In the current febrile, even Jacobin, climate it may seem foolhardy to offer a defence of pay inequality. However, here goes. The classic explanation of how a free labour market allocates people to...

Equality Bill adds to regulatory burden but is unlikely to produce hoped-for outcomes

J. R. Shackleton

29 April 2009

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Harriet Harman’s long-promised Equality Bill looks set to land employers with further regulatory burdens, while doing little to meet its ostensible objectives – themselves of debatable...

Time to suspend the minimum wage

Philip Booth

20 February 2009

12 comments

This is not the first time this subject has been covered on the IEA blog – but the point needs repeating. We should remove all impediments to employment in a recession and this should include...

Testing times for “New Europe”

Richard Wellings

5 February 2009

2 comments

Recent unrest in Latvia and Bulgaria has emphasised the economic difficulties faced by the formerly communist countries in central and eastern Europe. Indeed a new IEA study, New Europe’s Old...

Women and the recession

J. R. Shackleton

26 January 2009

4 comments

In the last few days, there have been two well-publicised claims that women are likely to suffer relatively more in the gathering recession than men. The first claim was made by the TUC in a report...

Welfare reform needed to prevent long-term dependency

Richard Wellings

3 November 2008

2 comments

According to official figures, almost two million people are now unemployed in the UK. That number is rising rapidly as the economy shrinks. This means extra expenditure on welfare benefits, putting...

Should we mind the gap?

J. R. Shackleton

23 October 2008

4 comments

Men working full-time currently earn about 17% more per hour than women working full-time. This gender pay gap is widely held to reflect systematic bias against women in the labour market. But when...

Unemployment and the minimum wage: the government cannot escape responsibility

John Meadowcroft

17 September 2008

21 comments

This morning the UK government announced that in the last quarter unemployment rose by more than 80,000 to a total of 1.7 million. We should never forget the countless personal tragedies that these...

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