Fri 1 Feb 19
Women, part-time workers, previously unemployed and sectors such as food and accommodation services, and textile manufacturing, have lowest chances of moving off minimum wage and onto jobs paying more than two thirds of the median hourly wage.
has published a new report by at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Professor Susan Harkness on the impact of the minimum wage. The study looks at the wage progression of minimum wage job holders between 2009 and 2016 to see whether the substantial increases in the minimum wage during this period affected rates of progression, and at what sort of jobs and what sort of people were moving onto better paid work after a spell working on the minimum wage.
Seven per cent of UK workers were on minimum wage in 2017 so this research will be important to policy makers looking to understand how and when people move onto better paid work.
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