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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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