Election 2021 Issue Brief: Inequality in Educational Attainment
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Household incomes and the 2021 election
Household income is a key determinant of a household’s standard of living. Government policies can have a range of direct and indirect impacts on the amount of money households have to spend on goods and services. Hence, it becomes a big deal at election time, with lots of debate about winners and losers and who should and shouldn’t benefit. This briefing provides a guide to household incomes in Scotland to help navigate the debate.
Insecure work and underemployment
Underemployment measures the extent to which workers would like to work longer hours, given the opportunity. This article examines trends in underemployment by group, finding that it is high among the young and those employed on insecure forms of contract.
Implications of hours worked for poverty and inequality
How do weekly hours worked affect earnings inequality and in-work poverty? This article examines this question, coinciding with the launch of our Interim Report for the Standard Life Foundation.
7 key things about key workers in Scotland and what it tells us
The CoVid-19 pandemic has awoken many to the role that key workers play in our society. But who exactly are they, and what do we know about them? This short article provides a summary of analysis carried out using pre-crisis Labour Force Survey data to help give us a basic …
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Changes in working hours, causes and implications – an introduction to our new project
We have recently started a new year-long project to examine how patterns of weekly hours worked have been changing in recent decades, examine what factors help explain those trends, and to consider implications for poverty, inequality – and policy. Whilst the distribution of hourly pay receives a lot of attention …
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