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Debt Management Today:
Recession 'might depress wages'

29 October 2008

The coming recession could make it much harder for low-income families to lift themselves out of poverty, a report suggests. Academics at the London School of Economics said that the gap between rich and poor was beginning to shrink after widening for the past 20 or so years.

This article appeared in Debt Management Today on the 29th October 2008.
Link to article.

Related Publications
Three background papers by Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight, are published by the Centre for Economic Performance and the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Link to papers

Link to the report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ‘The Changing Pattern of Earnings: Employees, Migrants and Low-Paid Families’ by Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight.

Related Links
Richard Dickens webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage