Higher wages, but insufficient earnings? The missing role of take-home pay in UK job quality
Stephens, T. C.
(25 October 2023)
Higher wages, but insufficient earnings? The missing role of take-home pay in UK job quality.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
(25 October 2023)
Higher wages, but insufficient earnings? The missing role of take-home pay in UK job quality.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
The UK has had considerable success in improving gross hourly wages at the bottom of the distribution. However, Thomas Stephens shows that the sufficiency of workers’ overall net earnings – accounting for hours worked, and pay deductions – hasn’t improved in the same way as hourly wages over this same period. He argues for a focus on Earnings Sufficiency, and its key drivers, to improve UK job quality.