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Why messing with pay is not the best way to end living cost squeeze
Kristian Niemietz
6 September 2013
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Unemployment and underemployment in the UK are still far too high. But given the circumstances, the UK’s labour market is in a far better shape than we might have expected. In much of Europe,...
The Pope and a 'fair wage' in Bangladesh
James Bartholomew
14 May 2013
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It is sad to see the Pope enter into the political and economic arena. He does not understand the issues and therefore has made wholly misguided remarks which are dangerous for the people of...
Thirty years of fiscal drag
Philip Booth
16 May 2012
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  It might be thought that a succession of ‘tax cutting’ governments from 1979 and a government pledged to reduce inequality from 1997 would have led to a huge increase in the...
Pay gap between public and private sectors has increased
Len Shackleton
5 July 2011
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The Office for National Statistics has published a new estimate of the size of the hourly pay gap between the public and private sectors. It shows that, after correcting for factors such as the...
Sweat Shops and the Need for Libertarian Moral Outrage
Mark Pennington
6 June 2011
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I haven’t been able to post for the last week or so owing to my lecturing on the Institute for Humane Studies Liberty and Society Summer Seminars (i’m currently between seminars). Last...

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