Dr Silvia Avram asks if the minimum wage goes up, do people’s chances of moving to a better-paid job go down?
The minimum wage and career progress
Blog author: Silvia Avram
The gig is up! Do workers really ‘choose’ unstable jobs?
Writing for the Institute for the Future of Work, Dr Silvia Avram shares the results of a new experimental study aimed at examining workers’ reactions to uncertainty about work availability and pay.
The National Living Wage, inequality and job progression: final report for the Low Pay Commission
MiSoC’S Professor Susan Harkness and Dr Silvia Avram write about the findings of their two-year research project on the effect of the National Living Wage on wages for the Low Pay Commission
Flexibility or insecurity: Are jobs with no or few guaranteed hours really desirable for workers?
Dr Silvia Avram’s study funded by the Nuffield Foundation looks at the impact of pay insecurity on employment
Are Tax Expenditures a Good Way to Redistribute?
Dr Silvia Avram investigates the prevalence and distributional effects of legal provisions that lower taxable income (tax allowances) or the final tax liability (tax credits) have on specific groups of personal income tax payers.
Losing benefits hurts more than paying taxes: implications for policy making
By framing policy differently, it may be possible to alter the design of welfare benefits so as to encourage people to take up work without necessarily cutting financial support