Living Wage

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Living Wage

The Living Wage is paid voluntarily by employers and set according to the cost of achieving an adequate standard of living.

A Fair Day’s Wage or a Financial Strain? Unpacking the UK’s Minimum Wage Hike

30th October 2024
Standard of Living - Limitations of GDP as a measure of Wellbeing

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UK's Real Living Wage Rises to £12 per hour

24th October 2023
3.5.3 Minimum Wage in the Labour Market (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

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Why does the UK have the highest inflation in G7?

6th June 2023
A crisis for Labour as real wages drop and working poverty climbs

17th January 2023
Poverty and Inequality - Cost of Living Crisis hitting most deprived areas hardest

27th November 2022
Energy Price Crisis - Time for a social tariff on energy bills?

11th August 2022
Will UK trade union membership start to rise again?

7th August 2022
Stagnation Nation - In Work Poverty, Inequality and Fragility in the face of Economic Shocks

13th July 2022
2022 Exams - Policies to Reduce Relative Poverty

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Labour Market: Sainsbury's raises pay to £10 an hour

8th January 2022
Minimum Wage and Living Wage

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Will there be a 'watering down' of the National Living Wage?

7th September 2016
Monopsony - Pay Penalty for Zero Hours Contract Workers

30th December 2016
Wage Differentials in the UK (Labour Markets)

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Living Standards and Human Development Index

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Minimum Wages - Analysis of Impact (Labour Markets)

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Minimum Wages - Evaluation (Labour Markets)

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Inequality in the UK Economy

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6 Strategies to Improve Living Standards

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Measuring the Standard of Living

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UK national living wage to rise by 6.2% in 2020

31st December 2019
Living Standards in the UK (2019 Update)

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Labour Market Failure (2019 Update)

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20 Years of the UK National Minimum Wage

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Economics of Inequality (Revision Video)

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Labour Market Economics (Quizlet Activity)

Quizzes & Activities
EdExcel Theme 3 Micro Knowledge Book - Labour Markets

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External costs of fast fashion

30th November 2018
Amazon increases their US minimum wage to $15 an hour

5th October 2018
JRF launches new Minimum Income Standard

3rd July 2018
Minimum Wage and Living Wage (Government Intervention)

Study Notes
'Fat Cat Thursday' - 04 January 2018

4th January 2018
Living Standards - Material and social deprivation in the EU in 2016

12th December 2017
Cleaning firm challenges zero hours and low pay culture

6th October 2017
Business Responses to the "new" UK Living Wage

24th April 2016
Why the Minimum Wage Worked

12th April 2016
Will the new National Living Wage cost jobs?

25th March 2016
Should there be a maximum wage?

29th July 2014
Measuring a minimum income standard

29th July 2014
Tesco shareholders attack executive pay deals

27th June 2015
Osborne rebrands the Minimum Wage

9th July 2015
IKEA to pay UK workers the Living Wage

20th July 2015
London Housing Rent Crisis - More Controls Needed?

20th August 2015
Whitbread to pay the Living Wage

9th September 2015

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