Health workers consistently move from poorer countries to richer ones, a pattern that tracks closely along lines drawn by colonial history.
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UK workers may feel like they’re working harder than ever – but it’s not showing up in the productivity figures.
Some small firms deliberately choose not to grow – and bring in more money for the country – because of the complexities.
Filling the UK’s skills and labour shortages is not as easy as simply turning off the supply of migrant workers.
Recent research shows labour markets are slower to bounce back from the effects of austerity than economists previously assumed.
The extreme levels of poverty endured by economically inactive people (as highlighted in the government’s own data) are a direct result of deliberate political choices to continually erode benefits.
Summing up the gender pay gap in one number hides how inequality affects different groups of women.
A new paper discusses the causes of, and potential solutions to, the ethnic pay gap in British workplaces.
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