Responding to today’s Office for National Statistics employment figures, IEA Editorial and Research Fellow Professor Len Shackleton said: “This morning’s … Continue reading “ONS labour market data “the calm before the storm,” says Professor Len Shackleton”

Millions of jobs will be seen to have been lost and thousands of businesses destroyed once furloughing is ended. In preparing … Continue reading “How the labour market can recover from the Covid-19 crisis”

Three months ago the UK labour market was doing better than at any time in recent memory, with record numbers … Continue reading “We need a post-Corona Ludwig Erhard”

Perhaps we – and I include myself – have cried wolf too often in relation to increases in minimum wages. … Continue reading “Employment growth among the low-paid is already slow. Minimum wage hikes will make things worse”

A lot has been happening on the minimum wage front recently. This week the Living Wage Foundation published its new … Continue reading “The new Living Wage consensus is still problematic”

Jeremy Corbyn has had another brainwave. The Labour leader wants to make it illegal for businesses to “pocket” tips and … Continue reading “Should it be illegal for businesses to pocket tips?”

Economic logic suggests that free determination of employment contracts, like free trade, normally benefits both parties and leads to high … Continue reading “From the gender pay gap to the minimum wage to executive pay – the politicisation of pay must end”

It is a constantly-reiterated view on the Left that the Conservatives are hell-bent on attacking employment rights and deregulating the … Continue reading “The myth of Britain’s ‘deregulated’ labour market”

The Institute of Economic Affairs’ Ryan Bourne, Nerissa Chesterfield, and Diego Zuluaga explain how today’s implementation of the National Living … Continue reading “The National Living Wage: Jeopardising 60,000 Jobs”