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Introduction to the Low Pay and the `Real` Living Wage
... Development of international LW networks and developing body of LW research literature has moved the LW to the centre of labour market and workplace discussions and, is at the centre of initiatives to determine ...
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Earnings and Low Pay in the Republic of Ireland
... of low paid workers. The experience of low pay does not, in and of itself, imply that a worker will experience a sub- optimal standard of ...the low paid employee, but also the income of ...
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Issues in the measurement of low pay
... of low pay can be produced at four points during the ...LFS low pay estimates for all quarters on both ...LFS low pay estimates for all quarters from 2003 using the old and ...
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Measuring low pay: The importance of timing
... The official ASHE estimates are measured in April which is some time after the NMW uprating takes place in the previous October. The Low Pay Commission (LPC) is eager to ensure compliance with the minimum ...
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The Dynamics of Low Pay Employment in Australia
... their low pay ...other pay loading for compensating for undesirable job characteristics and therefore should not be singled out for ...the low pay threshold used in this ...on ...
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Measuring low pay: Measures and precision
... There is a fourth measure of hourly pay which can be compared to the measure used to examine low pay in the LFS. The LFS methodology uses the stated rate if it is provided; otherwise an hourly rate ...
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Low Pay, Minimum Wages and Household Incomes: Evidence for Ireland
... between low pay and household poverty, and the patterns of incidence of low paid individuals in the household income distribution, it is of interest to examine the ‘cash’ or ‘first round’ effects of ...
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Measuring low pay: Focus points and rounding
... LFS respondents are asked to recall wage rates, total hours and total earnings; the latter two are also expected to refer to the same period. Given the larger potential for error in deriving a wage rate based upon ...
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Understanding official data sources: Final report for the low pay commission
... 2011 is the first year SOC2010 and SIC2007 codes are available for both datasets. However, this does not allow pre- and post-recession effects to be measured. In addition, adult and youth NMWs were just below focus ...
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Low pay and the living wage
... of low pay through their examination of earnings and hours worked in the industrial cleaning, retail, hotels and restaurant sectors of the Danish ...of low-paid work in this national setting and the ...
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Escaping the low pay trap: do labour market entrants stand a chance?
... The UK is characterized as a country where the “internal labour markets” dominate, and the link between the education and vocational training system with the labour market is weak (Gangl, 2001; Hannan et al., 1996). In ...
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Social Quality and Work: What Impact Does Low Pay Have on Social Quality?
... bring low pay closer to the level of the living ...a low hourly wage. Neither do all such low-paid workers live in households in ...work pay ” strategy ’ (Grover, 2005: ...with ...
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LOW PAY: THE IRISH EXPERIENCE ESRI Working Paper No 15, December 1989
... Taking the highest relative poverty line together with the higher of the low pay thresholds, 5 per cent of all employees are both themselves low paid and members of a 'poor' household.. [r] ...
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Issues in the measurement of low pay: Revised
... We then consider the effect that source has upon low pay estimates, by comparing measures from the ASHE and LFS. Specifically, we examine the tendency for rounding in the two data sources. We demonstrate ...
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The measurement of low pay in the UK labour force survey
... Consideration of the National Minimum Wage requires estimates of the distribution of hourly pay. The UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a key source of such estimates. The approach most frequently adopted by ...
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Statistics in Focus: Population and social conditions LOW INCOME AND LOW PAY IN A HOUSEHOLD CONTEXT (EU 12) 1998 6
... In all Member States, the majority of the population live in households with at least one member in a "full-time, full-year" job When the household has access to some earned income, it i[r] ...
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Low Pay in Ireland
... The subset of employees who are both low paid and in poor households accoullt for only a small percentage of all employees: only 5 per cent of all employees earn less than the £3.25 per [r] ...
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Workplaces, Low pay and the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain : A Co-production with the Low Pay Commission
... gender pay gap for the Unskilled is small at all lower deciles, however, especially in 2011 and 2015 and we would not expect the introduction of the NLW to have a significant impact on the gender pay gap ...
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Socio Economic Differences in the Satisfaction of High Pay and Low Pay Jobs in Europe
... Conclusions Following concerns regarding the declining economic prospects of workers on the lower rungs of the income distribution, which has supposedly led to the emergence of a two-tie[r] ...
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Breaking the low pay, no pay cycle: the effects of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement programme
... work pay’ by providing enough incentive to work while meeting the increasing challenge of keeping low-paid workers’ standards of living in sync with those of the working major- ity who have higher ...to ...
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