Publication type
Report
Author
Publication date
February 15, 2015
Summary:
Low pay is endemic in the UK labour market. While the issue has
recently moved to the forefront of the public debate on employment and
job quality, it is a longstanding feature of the UK economy. More than
one in five workers in the UK experience low pay, a proportion that has
changed little in more than 25 years.
This research:
assesses the scale of the ‘low-pay, no-pay’ phenomenon, whereby
people cycle between periods of low pay and worklessness. Being low paid
increases the probability of periods of worklessness by around 10 per
cent, after accounting for a host of individual, family and employment
characteristics;finds that more than a third of low-paid workers (38.4 per cent)
experience a period of worklessness over a four-year period, and
provides new evidence on the risk of job loss among low-paid workers in
the UK;calculates the relationship between a host of individual and job-related factors and the risk of job loss.
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Link
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/low-pay-no-pay-cycle
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