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Tackling Poverty Across the United Kingdom. Devolution, Difference and Discourse

open access: yesIPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The UK welfare state is often considered as being highly centralised, yet the design and administration of UK social security involves significant spatial variations in law, policy, and practice. As such, where you live in the UK can affect the value of benefits and cash transfers you are entitled to, as well as how you experience benefit ...
Ruth Patrick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Woeful Pay, But Still, I Enjoy It’: Refining Subjective Job Quality in Ride‐Share Work

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Workers who experience structural barriers in the labour market are overrepresented in the gig economy. There is limited research on how the broader context of labour markets and welfare systems shapes workers' motivations for, and subjective understandings of, ride‐share work. Using established concepts of ‘constrained agency’, ‘labour market
Alex Veen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Has in‐Work Poverty Risen in Britain?

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is work a reliable route out of poverty, and what does that depend upon? In Britain, the headline relative poverty rate for those in working households steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the drivers of this increase.
Jonathan Cribb, Tom Waters, Xiaowei Xu
wiley   +1 more source

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