The benefits of tackling worklessness and low pay
This research shows how increasing employment and wages can boost the economy, both locally and nationally
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International Monetary Fund
The more recent research by Olivier Blanchard and David Leigh of the International Monetary Fund (2013) and others identifies multiplier effects of government spending.
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Blanchard, O. and Leigh, D. (2013) Growth forecast errors and fiscal multipliers. IMF Working Paper WP/13/1. International Monetary Fund. Available at: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp1301.pdf
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Impacts on education services Bramley and Watkins (2008) present evidence that poverty affects education outcomes (and therefore lifelong incomes).
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Impacts on local authority personal social services Bramley and Watkins (2008) point out that the use of children’s social services is strongly associated with poverty.
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Impacts on local environmental services Bramley and Watkins (2008) find an association between street cleaning and other local environmental services, and poverty.
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Bramley, G. and Watkins, D. (2008) The public service costs of child poverty. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Available at: www.jrf.org.uk/publications/public-service-costs-child-poverty
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Bushe, S., Kenway, P. and Aldridge, H. (2014) How have low-income families been affected by changes to Council Tax Support? Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Available at: www.jrf.org.uk/ publications/low-income-families-changes-council-tax
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The UK Government
DWP (2011) DWP worklessness co-design, Interim Report, January 2011. Department for Work and Pensions. Available at: http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-worklessnessco-design
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Finn, D. and Goodship, J. (2014) Benefits take-up and poverty. In: Various authors (2014) Reducing poverty in the UK: A collection of evidence reviews. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Available at: http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/reducing-poverty-in-the-uk-evidence-reviews
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The additional costs are within the context of what will be an estimated 30% reduction in local government spending between 2008 and 2015 (Hastings, et al., 2013).
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A JRF commissioned report, Coping with the cuts (Hastings, et al., 2013), categorised the sorts of services that are more likely to be used by poor communities.
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Hastings, A., Bailey, N., Besemer, K., Bramley, G., Gannon, M. and Watkins, D. (2013) Coping with the cuts? Local government and poorer communities. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Available at: www.jrf.org.uk/publications/coping-with-cuts
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Institute for Public Policy Research
Lawton, K. and Pennycook, M. (2013) Beyond the bottom line: The challenges and opportunities of a living wage. Institute for Public Policy Research and the Resolution Foundation. Available at: www.ippr.org/publications/beyond-the-bottom-line-the-challenges-and-opportunities-of-aliving-wage
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OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD))
2012
In general local economies can be characterised on a spectrum from ‘low skills equilibrium’ to ‘high skills equilibrium’ – with a similar spectrum of pay levels (OECD, 2012).
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OECD (2012) Skills for competitiveness: Country report for United Kingdom. Green, A. OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Working Papers, 2012/05. OECD Publishing. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5k9bb1vc6skf-en
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Institute for Public Policy Research
(Pennycook, 2012), which estimated the impact of the Living Wage on company-level wage bills.
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Pennycook, M. (2012) What price a Living Wage? Understanding the impact of a living wage on firmlevel wage bills. Institute for Public Policy Research and Resolution Foundation. Available at: http://www.nao.org.uk/press-releases/department-for-communities-and-local-governmentcase-study-on-integration-measuring-the-costs-and-benefits-of-whole-place-communitybudgets-2/
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National Institute of Economic and Social Research
The report quoted research undertaken by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) (Riley, 2013), which suggested that a compulsory Living Wage could result in a net loss of 160,000 jobs in the economy.
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Riley, R. (2013) Modelling demand for low skilled/low paid labour: Exploring the employment tradeoffs of a Living Wage, Discussion Paper No. 404. National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Available at: http://niesr.ac.uk/publications/modelling-demand-low-skilledlow-paidlabour-exploring-employment-trade-offs-living-wage#.VA7oUGN6Vco
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